New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ACT 2000 - SECT 14J

14J Misdirected initiating process

(1) This section applies to proceedings:

(a) that are commenced in a court by a document filed by means of the ECM system, or

(b) that are remitted to a court under this section.

(2) On determining that it does not have jurisdiction to hear the whole or any part of the proceedings, the court:

(a) may remit the proceedings to such other court as appears to it to have jurisdiction to do so, and

(b) may make such other orders as it considers appropriate in the circumstances.

(3) Proceedings that are remitted to a court under this section are taken to have been commenced in that court on the date on which they were originally commenced.