45.3   The Administrative Law List

(cf SCR Part 14D, rule 1)

(1)  The following proceedings in the Supreme Court are to be entered in the Administrative Law List:

(a)  proceedings for commanding or otherwise requiring a public body or a public officer to perform a public duty,

(b)  proceedings for prohibiting or otherwise restraining a public body or a public officer from performing or purporting to perform any act,

(c)  proceedings for determining by declaration or otherwise any matter concerning the powers of a public body or a public officer,

(d)  proceedings in appeals or applications to the Court in respect of decisions of a public body or a public officer under any enactment specified in the rules for the purposes of this subrule.

(2)  In this rule:

prescribed tribunal means:

(a)  a specified tribunal within the meaning of section 48 of the Supreme Court Act 1970, or

(b)  the Local Court, or

(c)  a magistrate, coroner or assistant coroner, or

(d)  any other tribunal, person or body of persons prescribed, or belonging to a class prescribed for the purposes of this definition.

public body means a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, constituted by or under an Act and required to perform or performing public duties, but does not include a prescribed tribunal.

public officer means a person holding or acting in a public office under the Government of the State or an office created by or under an Act and required to perform or performing public duties, but does not include a prescribed tribunal.