UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 45.3 The Administrative Law List

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 45.3

45.3 The Administrative Law List

(cf SCR Part 14D, rule 1)

(1) The following proceedings in the Supreme Court are to be entered in the Administrative Law List--

(a) proceedings for commanding or otherwise requiring a public body or a public officer to perform a public duty,

(b) proceedings for prohibiting or otherwise restraining a public body or a public officer from performing or purporting to perform any act,

(c) proceedings for determining by declaration or otherwise any matter concerning the powers of a public body or a public officer,

(d) proceedings in appeals or applications to the Court in respect of decisions of a public body or a public officer under any enactment specified in the rules for the purposes of this subrule.

(2) In this rule--


"prescribed tribunal" means--

(a) a specified tribunal within the meaning of section 48 of the Supreme Court Act 1970 , or

(b) the Local Court, or

(c) a magistrate, coroner or assistant coroner, or

(d) any other tribunal, person or body of persons prescribed, or belonging to a class prescribed for the purposes of this definition.

"public body" means a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, constituted by or under an Act and required to perform or performing public duties, but does not include a prescribed tribunal.


"public officer" means a person holding or acting in a public office under the Government of the State or an office created by or under an Act and required to perform or performing public duties, but does not include a prescribed tribunal.