Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

COURT PROCEDURES ACT 2004 - SECT 21

    (1)     Subject to this part, any relevant rules of court, the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2008 and the Judiciary Act 1903 (Cwlth)—

        (a)     a proceeding may be brought by or against the Crown in the same way as a proceeding between subjects; and

        (b)     the same procedural and substantive law applies to such a proceeding as in a proceeding between subjects.

    (2)     Subject to the regulations, a proceeding may be brought by or against the Crown—

        (a)     for the Territory Crown—under the name of the ‘Australian Capital Territory'; or

        (b)     in any other case—under the name in which the Crown could sue or be sued in the courts of its own jurisdiction.

    (3)     In this section:

"proceeding", against the Crown, includes a proceeding to attach earnings or other debts owing or accruing from the Territory Crown to someone else.