Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered Regulations(1) After Rule 84.02(1)(d) of the Principal Rules insert —
"(da) an application under section 134AB(30) and (31) of the Accident Compensation Act 1985 ;
(db) an application under section 344(6) and (7) of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 ;".
(2) After Rule 84.02(2) of the Principal Rules insert —
"(3) Subject to this Order, a judicial registrar may in any civil proceeding hear and determine—
(a) an application under, or a matter constituted by a proposed exercise (whether on the Court's own motion or otherwise) of the Court's powers under,—
(i) section 47 (except subsection (3)(f)), 48, 50, 50A (except subsection (1)(b)), 52, 65I or 66 of the Civil Procedure Act 2010 ;
(ii) Order 34;
(iii) Rule 4.14(3) of Chapter II of the Rules of the Supreme Court;
(b) an application for an order for the payment, or taxation and payment, of costs, including any reserved costs;
(c) an application made by consent of the parties for—
(i) judgment for the recovery of any debt or damages together with interest or damages in the nature of interest;
(ii) an order for the striking out or dismissal of the proceeding;
(iii) an order for the payment out of Court of money paid into Court (other than money paid into Court for the benefit of a person under disability);
(iv) an order staying the execution of any judgment or order.
(4) Nothing in paragraph (3) authorises a judicial registrar—
(a) to hear or determine any application or other matter which (without referral under Rule 77.05) would not be within the authority of an Associate Judge;
(b) to conduct the trial of a proceeding;
(c) to give any judgment or make any order at the trial of a proceeding.
(5) For the purposes of hearing and determining any application or other matter referred to in paragraph (3)—
(a) the judicial registrar constitutes the Court; and
(b) all the powers of the Court in relation to the hearing and determination of such a matter are delegated to the judicial registrar.".
Dated: 25 August 2016
M. L. WARREN, C.J.
CHRISTOPHER MAXWELL, P.
R. S. OSBORN, J.A.
DAVID F. R. BEACH, J.A.
S. G. E. McLEISH, J.A.
ELIZABETH HOLLINGWORTH, J.
ANTHONY CAVANOUGH, J.
JACK FORREST, J.
JAMES JUDD, J.
PETER VICKERY, J.
TERRY FORREST, J.
KARIN EMERTON, J.
CLYDE CROFT, J.
JOHN R. DIXON, J.
C. MACAULAY, J.
KATE McMILLAN, J.
GREG GARDE, J.
G. J. DIGBY, J.
JAMES D. ELLIOTT, J.
T. J. GINNANE, J.
MELANIE SLOSS, J.
JOANNE CAMERON, J.
MICHAEL McDONALD, J.
JANE A. DIXON, J.
A. J. KEOGH, J.
MAREE KENNEDY, J.
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