The Courts shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any proceeding where the debt, demand, or damages, or the value of the chattels claimed, is not more than $200,000, whether on balance of account or otherwise:

“Provided that the Courts shall not, except as in this Act provided, have jurisdiction to hear and determine—

The Courts shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any proceeding where the debt or demand claimed consists of a balance not exceeding $200,000, after a set-off of any debt or demand claimed or recoverable by the defendant from the plaintiff, being a set-off admitted by the plaintiff in the particulars of the plaintiffs claim or demand.’

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Courts shall have—

Where jurisdiction in respect of any proceeding or class of proceeding is, by virtue of any provision of any Act (not being section 16 of the Judicature Act 1908) that relates expressly to that proceeding or class of proceeding, exercisable by the High Court or any other court (not being a District Court), District Courts shall not by virtue of subsection (1)(a) of this section or section 29(1) of this Act have the equitable jurisdiction of the High Court in respect of that proceeding or class of proceeding.

No proceeding for the dissolution or winding up of a partnership or order thereon shall prevent any creditor from petitioning for an adjudication of bankruptcy against any member or members thereof.”

A Judge shall have jurisdiction in any proceeding pending to make any order or to exercise any authority or jurisdiction which, if it related to a proceeding pending in the High Court, might be made or exercised by a Judge of the High Court in Chambers.

Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, an interlocutory injunction restraining a party to a proceeding (whether domiciled, resident or present in New Zealand) from removing from New Zealand, or otherwise dealing with, assets in New Zealand is the only interlocutory injunction in the nature of a Mareva injunction that a Judge may grant.

Without limiting the power to make an order for the detention, custody, or preservation of any property, it is hereby declared that nothing in this Act authorises a Judge to make an Anton Piller order.”

Where a Court has power to award interest under section 62b of this Act, the Court may exercise that power notwithstanding that the inclusion of the interest in the sum for which judgment is given will cause that sum to exceed a monetary amount that, under this Act, applies in relation to the Court’s jurisdiction in respect of that proceeding.”