8Application of this Part

#### 8 Application of this Part (1) This Part applies to: (a) a civil proceeding commenced in an Australian court; and (b) a civil proceeding commenced in an Australian tribunal, but only if: (i) the tribunal’s procedural rules permit an initiating document relating to the proceeding to be served outside Australia; and (ii) the tribunal is prescribed by the regulations. (2) However, this Part does not apply to: (a) a civil proceeding that relates wholly or partly to an excluded matter; or (b) a civil proceeding that relates wholly or partly to an action in rem; or (c) a civil proceeding in an Australian tribunal, being a civil proceeding of a kind prescribed by the regulations; or (d) a civil proceeding that relates to a matter of a kind prescribed by the regulations. (3) For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(ii), the regulations must not prescribe a tribunal unless, at the time of making the regulations, the tribunal is declared under section 55 of the NZ Act to be a tribunal to which subpart 5 of Part 2 of that Act applies.