New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsThe District Court holden at Sydney shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the District Courts Act of 1858 have jurisdiction to try any such action of compensation in any case where the whole amount of the claim in respect to any land resumed in pursuance of this Act does not exceed two hundred pounds, or if exceeding that amount, in any case where the said Council and the claimant, by a memorandum signed by them, or by such claimant’s attorney and the Council’s solicitor agree thereto. For the purposes of this section the provisions of the said District Courts Act, and of any Act amending the same, together with all rules made or to be made thereunder, shall be deemed to apply to all proceedings taken in any District Court hereunder.