New Zealand Acts

TRANS-TASMAN PROCEEDINGS ACT 2010 - SECT 15

15 Information for defendant that must be in or with documents served under section 13

1 An initiating document served in Australia under section 13 must contain or be accompanied by the prescribed information for the defendant.

2 The prescribed information for the defendant must be or include general information about—

a) steps that the defendant must or may take in relation to the proceeding; and

b) consequences of the document being served on the defendant in Australia under section 13 .

3 The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations prescribing information for the defendant for the purposes of, and under, this section.

4 Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

History: Section 15(4): inserted, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).