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This instrument is the Civil Dispute Resolution Regulations 2021.
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The instrument prescribes three narrow categories of "excluded proceedings" for the Civil Dispute Resolution Act 2011’s subsection 17(1) — certain bankruptcy sequestration actions, specified company winding‑up applications tied to statutory demands, and reviews of registrars’ decisions — so parties in those cases are treated as outside s.17(1)’s scope. It reduces that statutory reach, creates an added compliance/interpretive step for advisers and courts, and expires at the start of 1 October 2027.
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This instrument is the Civil Dispute Resolution Regulations 2021.
This instrument in made under the Civil Dispute Resolution Act 2011.
In this instrument:
Act means the Civil Dispute Resolution Act 2011.
For the purposes of subsection 17(1) of the Act, the following proceedings are prescribed: (a) proceedings for a sequestration order under section 43 of the Bankruptcy Act 1966, if the act of bankruptcy relied on arose under paragraph 40(1)(g) of that Act; (b) proceedings for an order under section 459A of the Corporations Act 2001 to wind up a company in insolvency, if the application for the order relies on a failure by the company to comply with a statutory demand (within the meaning of that Act); (c) proceedings for review of a decision of a Registrar of an eligible court.
This instrument is repealed at the start of 1 October 2027.
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This instrument is the Civil Dispute Resolution Regulations 2021.
This instrument in made under the Civil Dispute Resolution Act 2011.
In this instrument:
Act means the Civil Dispute Resolution Act 2011.
For the purposes of subsection 17(1) of the Act, the following proceedings are prescribed: (a) proceedings for a sequestration order under section 43 of the Bankruptcy Act 1966, if the act of bankruptcy relied on arose under paragraph 40(1)(g) of that Act; (b) proceedings for an order under section 459A of the Corporations Act 2001 to wind up a company in insolvency, if the application for the order relies on a failure by the company to comply with a statutory demand (within the meaning of that Act); (c) proceedings for review of a decision of a Registrar of an eligible court.
This instrument is repealed at the start of 1 October 2027.