New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL TENANCIES ACT 1990 - SECT 22

22 Jurisdiction of courts

(1) A court has no jurisdiction:

(a) in respect of any issue in a dispute or matter relating to a right or obligation conferred by this Act or any other matter referred to in section 21 (1) (c), or

(b) in respect of any issue in a dispute or matter that has been referred to arbitration and has not been withdrawn or dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

(2) If proceedings for the determination of any issue were commenced in a court before a dispute or matter involving that issue was first referred to arbitration, the arbitration proceedings are to be terminated on the application of a party to the arbitration who is a party to the court proceedings.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to arbitration proceedings relating to an issue in respect of which a court has no jurisdiction.