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State Courts Act 1970 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Jurisdiction
54A. General power to transfer from Magistrate’s Court to District Court
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Where it appears to a District Court, on the application of a party to any civil proceedings pending in a Magistrate’s Court, that the proceedings, by reason of its involving some important question of law, or being a test case, or for any other sufficient reason, should be tried in the District Court, it may order the proceedings to be transferred to the District Court.
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An order under subsection (1) may be made on such terms as the court sees fit.