Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated ActsPreamble
Whereas inconvenience and expense have occasionally been caused to litigants
by jurisdictional limitations in federal, State and Territory courts, and
whereas it is desirable —
(a) to
establish a system of cross-vesting of jurisdiction between those courts,
without detracting from the existing jurisdiction of any court;
(b) to
structure the system in such a way as to ensure as far as practicable that
proceedings concerning matters which, apart from this Act and any law of the
Commonwealth or another State relating to cross-vesting of jurisdiction, would
be entirely or substantially within the jurisdiction (other than any accrued
jurisdiction) of the Federal Court or the Family Court or the jurisdiction of
a Supreme Court of a State or Territory are instituted and determined in that
court, whilst providing for the determination by one court of federal and
State matters in appropriate cases; and
(c) if a
proceeding is instituted in a court that is not the appropriate court, to
provide a system under which the proceeding will be transferred to the
appropriate court:
[Preamble amended by No. 19 of 2010
s. 50.]
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the
Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: —