TRANS-TASMAN PROCEEDINGS ACT 2010 - SECT 10 Effect of service under section 9

TRANS-TASMAN PROCEEDINGS ACT 2010 - SECT 10

    Service of an initiating document in New Zealand under section   9 :

  (a)   has the same effect; and

  (b)   gives rise to the same proceeding;

as if the initiating document had been served in the place of issue.

Note:   For initiating documents issued by an Australian court, the defendant may apply to the Australian court to stay the proceeding on the grounds that a New Zealand court is the more appropriate court: see Part   3 . In some cases, the defendant and the defendant's lawyer may appear remotely in that stay proceeding without the court's leave: see subsection   18 (4).