Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(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 i s 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 a n 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 .