Federal Courts (State Jurisdiction) Bill 1999 (Qld)

Queensland

FEDERAL COURTS (STATE JURISDICTION) BILL 1999

FEDERAL COURTS (STATE JURISDICTION) BILL 1999

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page PART 1—PRELIMINARY 1 Short title 200... 4 2 Purpose... 0.2 eee ee eee eee 4 3 Definitions 2.0.0... 0... ete ene eee 4 4 Meaning of "ineffective judgment"... . 2.2.06... eee eee 6 5 Act binds all persons .. 0.6... eee 6 PART 2—RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES

6 Rights and liabilities declared in certain cases .................00005 6 7 Effect of declared rights and liabilities ..................0000 0000s 7 8 Effect of things done or omitted to be done under or in relation to

rights and liabilities... 2.2... 20.0.0... cece eee cece eee ee eee 8 9 Section 6 regarded as having ceased to have effect in certain cases..... 8 10 Powers of Supreme Court in relation to declared rights and liabilities.... 9 11 Certain proceedings may be treated as proceedings in the

Supreme Court. 0... 0... cee eee 10 12 Proceedings for contempt ................ 0.00 eee eee eee eee 11 13 Evidentiary ...... 0... ccc ttt eee eens 11 14 Act not to apply to certain judgments ................000....000000. 11

PART 3—GENERAL

15 Regulation-making power... 2.6.6... ccc cece ete eee eee 12 16 Act amended by pt 4.0.0.0... 000 c cece cece ects 12 17 Omission of s 22 (Jurisdiction of courts of this jurisdiction) ............ 12

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the ineffective conferral of jurisdiction on the Federal Court of Australia and the Family Court of Australia about certain matters Federal Courts (State Jurisdiction)

The Parliament of Queensland enacts— 1 PART 1—PRELIMINARY 2

Short title 3 1. This Act may be cited as the Federal Courts (State Jurisdiction) Act 4 1999. 5 Purpose 6 2. The purpose of this Act is to provide that certain decisions of the 7 Federal Court of Australia or the Family Court of Australia have effect as 8 decisions of the Supreme Court and to make other provision relating to 9 certain matters relating to the jurisdiction of those courts. 10 Definitions 11 3. In this Act— 12 "applied administrative law" means a law of the State applying a 13 Commonwealth administrative law as a law of the State. 14 "Commonwealth administrative law" means— 15 (a) any of the following Acts of the Commonwealth— 16