Western Australian Consolidated Acts

JURISDICTION OF COURTS (CROSS-VESTING) ACT 1987 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This is a compilation of the Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-vesting) Act 1987 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table ². The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-vesting) Act 1987	68 of 1987	22 Nov 1987	s. 1: 22 Nov 1987; Act other than s. 1: 1 Jul 1988 (see s. 1(2) and Gazette 24 Jun 1988 p. 1995)
Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-vesting) Amendment Act 1994 3	3 of 1994	11 Apr 1994	s. 1 and 2: 11 Apr 1994; Act other than s. 1 and 2: 26 Sep 1998 (see s. 2 and Gazette 25 Sep 1998 p. 5295)
Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Act 2001 s. 29	8 of 2001	28 Jun 2001	Operative immediately before the beginning of 15 Jul 2001 (see s. 2 and Cwlth Gazette 13 Jul 2001 No. S285)
Acts Amendment (Federal Courts and Tribunals) Act 2001 Pt. 6	32 of 2001	21 Dec 2001	21 Dec 2001 (see s. 2(1))
Reprint of the Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-vesting) Act 1987 as at 8 Feb 2002 (includes amendments listed above)
Acts Amendment (Court of Appeal) Act 2004 s. 37	45 of 2004	9 Nov 2004	1 Feb 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 14 Jan 2005 p. 163)
Legal Profession Act 2008 s. 670	21 of 2008	27 May 2008	1 Mar 2009 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 27 Feb 2009 p. 511)

Statutes (Repeals and Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2009 s. 82	8 of 2009	21 May 2009	22 May 2009 (see s. 2(b))
Reprint 2: The Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-vesting) Act 1987 as at 24 Jul 2009 (includes amendments listed above)

Standardisation of Formatting Act 2010 s. 50

19 of 2010

28 Jun 2010

11 Sep 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 10 Sep 2010 p. 4341)

² The Federal Courts (State Jurisdiction) Act 1999 s. 21 had not come into operation when it was deleted by the Acts Amendment (Federal Courts and Tribunals) Act 2001 s. 16.

³ The Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-vesting) Amendment Act 1994 s. 7 reads as follows:

7. Application

Despite the amendments of the principal Act made by this Part, the principal Act as in force immediately before the commencement of section 5 of this Act continues to apply in relation to a proceeding pending in a court to which section 6 of the principal Act applied before that commencement.

Defined Terms

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined Term Provision(s)
Commonwealth authority 6A(6)
Family Court 3(1)
Federal Court 3(1)
federal matter proceeding 6A(1)
first court 5(2)(a), 5(3)(a), 5(4)(a), 5(5)(a), 5(7)(a)
Full Court 3(1)
judgment 3(1)
officer of the Commonwealth 6A(6)
party 3(1)
proceeding 3(1)
relevant proceeding 5(1)(a), 5(2)(a), 5(3)(a), 5(4)(a), 5(5)(a), 8(1)(a)
special federal matter 3(1)
State 3(1)
State Family Court 3(1)
State matter 3(1)
State matter proceeding 6A(1)(c)
Territory 3(1)
the Commonwealth Act 3(1)
the State enactment 6A(1)(b)
transferee court 11(3)
transferor court 11(3)
transferred proceeding 5(9)