Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) The Supreme Court may sit in any State or self-governing Territory for the purpose of hearing and determining a matter, otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, if a Judge is satisfied that the hearing of the matter outside Norfolk Island is not contrary to the interests of justice.
(2) A sitting of the Supreme Court outside Norfolk Island may be held at a place in a State or self-governing Territory, and at a time, that a Judge thinks fit.
(3) Where a Judge is satisfied that a matter pending in the Supreme Court otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction is a matter the hearing of which, or the continuation of the hearing of which, at a sitting of the Supreme Court at a place outside Norfolk Island is not contrary to the interests of justice:
(a) the Supreme Court may, at any time when the matter is before the court for hearing at a sitting of the Court on Norfolk Island, order that the hearing of the matter be adjourned and be continued at a sitting of the court to be held at some place outside Norfolk Island specified in the order; or
(b) a Judge may, at any time when the matter is not before the Supreme Court for hearing, order that the matter be heard or continued at a sitting of the court to be held at a place outside Norfolk Island specified in the order, and may also revoke any order previously made by the court or a Judge, whether under these Regulations or otherwise, with respect to the hearing or continuation of the hearing of the matter at a sitting of the court on Norfolk Island.
(4) Where a matter is before the Supreme Court for hearing at a sitting of the court at a place outside Norfolk Island, the court may order that the hearing of the matter be adjourned and be continued at a sitting of the court to be held:
(a) at that place or at another place outside Norfolk Island; or
(b) on Norfolk Island.
(5) Where the Supreme Court or a Judge has, under these Regulations or otherwise, ordered that a matter be heard or continued at a sitting of the court to be held at a place outside Norfolk Island, a Judge may, at any time when the matter is not before the court for hearing, revoke that order and order that the matter be heard or continued at a sitting of the court to be held at another place outside Norfolk Island or on Norfolk Island.
(6) Where the Supreme Court or a Judge makes an order under these Regulations relating to the hearing of a matter, the court or the Judge may give directions concerning the service of a copy of the order upon the parties to the matter other than the party at whose instance the order was made.
(7) Subregulations (2) to (6) (inclusive) have effect subject to subregulation (1).