Cross-border Justice Act 2009
75Court documents in wrong form do not invalidate proceedings
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75 Court documents in wrong form do not invalidate proceedings or decisions (a) a document filed, served or issued in a cross-border proceeding of a prescribed court of the Territory (the Territory court) is in the form of a court document of a prescribed court of another participating jurisdiction (the interstate court); and
Cross-border Justice Act 2009 41 (b) the person who is the subject of the proceeding has a jurisdiction for the proceeding. (2) The proceeding or a decision in the proceeding cannot be challenged, appealed against, quashed or called into question on the ground that the document is in the form of a court document of the interstate court. (3) The Territory court may, on an application made by a party to the proceeding or on its own initiative, order that a document in the form of a court document of the Territory court be filed, served or issued (as the case requires) instead of the document mentioned in subsection (1)(a). (4) A document filed, served or issued under subsection (3) is taken to have been filed, served or issued on the day, and at the time, the document mentioned in subsection (1)(a) was filed, served or issued.