Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005
Current version for 15 March 2013 to date (accessed 26 May 2013 at 15:33)

11.7   Setting aside originating process served outside Australia

(cf SCR Part 10, rule 6A)

(1)  The Supreme Court may make an order of a kind referred to in rule 12.11 (Setting aside originating process etc) on application by a defendant on whom originating process is served outside Australia.
(2)  Without limiting subrule (1), the Supreme Court may make an order under this rule:
(a)  on the ground that the service of the originating process is not authorised by these rules, or
(b)  on the ground that the court is an inappropriate forum for the trial of the proceedings.
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