Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN EVIDENCE ACT 1994 - SECT 11

             (1)  The appropriate court may, on the application of a party to a proceeding before a court of summary jurisdiction exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 , exercise the same power to make an order of the kind referred to in Division 1 for the purpose of that proceeding as the appropriate court has under that Division:

                     (a)  if it is the Family Court of Australia--for the purpose of any proceeding before it; or

                     (b)  otherwise--for the purpose of a proceeding before it when it is exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 .

             (2)  In this section:

"appropriate court" means:

                     (a)  if the proceeding takes place in a State other than Western Australia, or in a Territory other than the Northern Territory, the Territory of Christmas Island or the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands--the Family Court of Australia; or

                     (b)  if the proceeding takes place in Western Australia, the Territory of Christmas Island or the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands--the Family Court of Western Australia; or

                     (c)  if the proceeding takes place in the Northern Territory--the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.