Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00719:section:212
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00719
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 212
Character Range: 358865–360006

212  Criteria for transfers between courts

General
 (1) The transferring court may make a transfer under section 211 only if it appears to the transferring court, taking into account the considerations covered by subsection (2), that:
 (a) the transfer matter arises out of, or is related to, another proceeding pending, or that has come, before a receiving court; or
 (b) it is otherwise in the interests of justice that the transfer matter be determined by a receiving court.

Relevant considerations
 (2) The considerations covered by this subsection include, but are not limited to, the following:
 (a) the principal location, or place of business, of the parties in relation to the transfer matter;
 (b) where the event (or events) that are the subject of the transfer matter took place;
 (c) the desirability of related proceedings being heard in the same State or Territory;
 (d) any relevant recommendation received under subsection 211(2);
 (e) the suitability (taking into account the considerations mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d) and any other consideration) of having the transfer matter determined by the receiving court.