Home | Databases | WorldLII | Search | Feedback Cook Islands Sessional Legislation

Cook Islands Amendment Act 1969

COOK ISLANDS

COOK ISLANDS AMENDMENT ACT 1969

ANALYSIS

Title

1. Short Title

2. Civil proceedings not to be instituted in any Court other than High Court

---------------------------------------------

1969, No. 14

An Act to amend the Cook Islands Act 1915

(15 October 1969)

BE IT ENACTED by the legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. Short Title - This Act may be cited as the Cook Islands Amendment Act 1969 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Cook Islands Act 1915 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

2. Civil proceedings not to be instituted in Court other than High Court - The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing sections 153 and 154 and substituting the following section:

"153. (1) No action or civil proceeding (including proceedings for a declaratory ,judgment under the Declaratory Judgments Act 1908 but excluding proceedings under the Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1963 and proceedings in connection with maintenance) relating in any manner to the Cook Islands which may be instituted in the High Court of the Cook Islands shall be instituted in any Court other than the High Court of the Cook Islands.

(2) This section shall not affect in any way any action or civil proceeding instituted in any Court other than the High Court of the Cook Islands prior to the commencement of this Act."

-----------------------------------------

This Act is administered in the Justice Department