16Principal seat and sittings

16 Principal seat and sittings

(1) The principal seat of the Supreme Court shall be at West Island. (2) Sittings of the Supreme Court shall be held at the principal seat from time to time as is necessary and at such places other than the principal seat as the judge thinks fit. (3) The Supreme Court may, at any stage of a proceeding, order that the proceeding be continued at a place and time specified in the order, and may from time to time vary any such order. (4) Sittings of the Supreme Court may be held at a place in Australia outside the Territory for the purpose of hearing and determining a matter, otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, if the Court is satisfied that the hearing of the matter outside the Territory is not contrary to the interests of justice.