Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) 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.
(2) For the purposes
of subsection (1), if the bankruptcy trustee of a bankrupt de facto partner
applies under the Bankruptcy Act section 139A for an order under Part VI
Division 4A of that Act, proceedings relating to that application are taken to
be related to proceedings in relation to that de facto partner’s de
facto relationship.
[Section 45 amended: No. 59 of 2004 s. 95; No. 28
of 2022 s. 7.]