New Zealand Legislation: Acts

51E Power to prescribe procedure on applications to High Court, Court of Appeal, or Supreme Court

• (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or in any Imperial Act in force in New Zealand, rules may be made under section 51C prescribing the form and manner in which any class or classes of applications to the High Court or a Judge thereof or to the Court of Appeal or to the Supreme Court shall be made.

  (2) So far as the provisions of any Act prescribing the form or manner in which any such applications are to be made, whether by petition, motion, summons, or otherwise, are inconsistent with or repugnant to the High Court Rules or the Court of Appeal Rules or to any rules made under section 51C, the Act prescribing that form or manner shall be deemed to be subject to the rules.

  Section 51E: inserted, on 1 January 1986, by section 4 of the Judicature Amendment Act (No 2) 1985 (1985 No 112).

  Section 51E heading: amended, on 1 January 2004, by section 48(1) of the Supreme Court Act 2003 (2003 No 53).

  Section 51E(1): amended, on 1 January 2004, by section 48(1) of the Supreme Court Act 2003 (2003 No 53).