Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 45

45 .         Stay or dismissal of proceedings

                Where proceedings are before the Court or the Magistrates Court in the exercise of a non-federal jurisdiction and it appears to the Court or the court that — 

            (a)         related proceedings, being proceedings within or outside the State, are pending in another court; and

            (b)         it is in the interests of justice to stay or dismiss the proceedings in the Court or the Magistrates Court,

                the Court or the Magistrates Court may stay the proceedings before it for such time as it thinks fit or it may dismiss those proceedings.

        [Section 45 amended by No. 59 of 2004 s. 95.]