Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00487:section:8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00487
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8
Character Range: 26262–27314

8  Application of this Part
 (1) This Part applies to:
 (a) a civil proceeding commenced in an Australian court; and
 (b) a civil proceeding commenced in an Australian tribunal, but only if:
 (i) the tribunal's procedural rules permit an initiating document relating to the proceeding to be served outside Australia; and
 (ii) the tribunal is prescribed by the regulations.
 (2) However, this Part does not apply to:
 (a) a civil proceeding that relates wholly or partly to an excluded matter; or
 (b) a civil proceeding that relates wholly or partly to an action in rem; or
 (c) a civil proceeding in an Australian tribunal, being a civil proceeding of a kind prescribed by the regulations; or
 (d) a civil proceeding that relates to a matter of a kind prescribed by the regulations.
 (3) For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(ii), the regulations must not prescribe a tribunal unless, at the time of making the regulations, the tribunal is declared under section 55 of the NZ Act to be a tribunal to which subpart 5 of Part 2 of that Act applies.