New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PAWNBROKERS AND SECOND-HAND DEALERS ACT 1996 - SECT 32I

32I Role of courts

(1) The Local Court does not have jurisdiction to determine an action for the detention of goods brought by a claimant in connection with goods that are in the possession of a licensee and to which a restoration notice relates, unless:

(a) the regulations otherwise provide, or

(b) the Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to hear and determine an application for an order under section 32G in relation to the goods, or

(c) the Tribunal has directed that proceedings to hear and determine such an application be stayed on the ground that the Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to make an order as sought because of monetary limits on the jurisdiction of the Tribunal.

(2) If proceedings for the recovery of pawned goods are commenced in any other court, that other court may, without affecting any power vested in it, hear and determine the proceedings in accordance with that section.