Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00459:section:11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00459
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 11
Character Range: 10206–11239

11  Transfer of proceedings
 (1) The Supreme Court of a State or Territory in which a claim for compensation has been made under the applied provisions of the Convention, or in which proceedings under section 10 have been instituted, may, if the Court thinks fit, at any stage in the proceedings, upon application or of its own motion, by order, transfer the proceedings to another Supreme Court.
 (2) Where proceedings are transferred from a Supreme Court in pursuance of subsection (1):
 (a) all documents filed, and moneys or guarantees lodged, in that Court in those proceedings shall be transmitted by the Registrar or other proper officer of that Court to the Registrar or other proper officer of the Court to which the proceedings are transferred; and
 (b) the Court to which the proceedings are transferred shall proceed as if the proceedings had been originally instituted in that Court and as if the same proceedings had been taken in that Court as had been taken in the Court from which the proceedings were transferred.