CIVIL PROCEDURE ACT 2005 - SECT 155 Definitions

CIVIL PROCEDURE ACT 2005 - SECT 155

155 Definitions

(cf s33A FCA)

In this Part--


"Court" means the Supreme Court.


"defendant" means a person against whom relief is sought in representative proceedings.


"group member" means a member of a group of persons on whose behalf representative proceedings have been commenced.


"proceedings" means proceedings in the Court other than criminal proceedings.


"representative party" means a person who commences representative proceedings.


"representative proceedings" --see section 157.


"sub-group member" means a person included in a sub-group established under section 168.


"sub-group representative party" means a person appointed to be a sub-group representative party under section 168.

Note : For the purposes of comparison, a number of provisions of this Part contain bracketed notes in headings drawing attention ("cf") to equivalent or comparable (though not necessarily identical) provisions of Part IVA of the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 ("FCA") of the Commonwealth as in force immediately before the commencement of this Part.