Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CIVIL DISPUTE RESOLUTION ACT 2011 - SECT 15

    Proceedings are excluded proceedings to the extent that they are any of the following:

  (a)   proceedings for an order imposing a pecuniary penalty for a contravention of a civil penalty provision;

  (b)   proceedings brought by or on behalf of the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority for an order connected with:

  (i)   a criminal offence or the possible commission of a criminal offence; or

  (ii)   a contravention or possible contravention of a civil penalty provision;

  (c)   proceedings that relate to a decision of, or a decision that has been subject to review by:

  (i)   the Administrative Appeals Tribunal;

  (ii)   the Australian Competition Tribunal;

  (iii)   the Copyright Tribunal of Australia;

  (vii)   the Veterans' Review Board;

  (viii)   a body prescribed by the regulations;

  (d)   proceedings in the appellate jurisdiction of an eligible court;

  (e)   proceedings arising from the exercise of a power to compel a person to answer questions, produce documents or appear before a person or body under a law of the Commonwealth;

  (f)   proceedings in relation to the exercise of a power to issue a warrant, or the exercise of a power under a warrant;

  (g)   proceedings that are, or relate to, proceedings in which the applicant or the respondent has been declared a vexatious litigant under a law relating to vexatious litigants (however described);

  (h)   ex parte proceedings;

  (i)   proceedings to enforce an enforceable undertaking.