New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DISTRICT COURT ACT 1973 - SECT 5

5 Definition: nearest proclaimed place

(1) A reference in this Act to the nearest proclaimed place to another place (however expressed) is a reference to the proclaimed place the distance between the principal registry for which and that other place is shorter than the distance between any other principal registry and that other place.

(2) In subsection (1)--

"distance" means distance computed in accordance with the civil procedure rules.

"principal registry" , in relation to a proclaimed place, means--

(a) where there is only one registry for the proclaimed place--that registry, or

(b) where there are two or more registries for the proclaimed place--the registry specified in, or determined in accordance with, the civil procedure rules as being the principal registry for the proclaimed place.

(3) The Governor may, at the Governor's discretion, by proclamation, specify an address or a place at which the principal registry for a proclaimed place shall be deemed to be situated, and that principal registry shall, for the purposes of subsection (1), be deemed to be situated at the address or place so specified, notwithstanding that it may be situated elsewhere.