Competent courts

(1) The following courts are competent courts for the purposes of this Part:

(a) a court listed in subsection (2) that has jurisdiction in all or part of the electoral district in question; and

(b) the Federal Court.

Courts

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), the courts are

(a) in the Province of Ontario, the Superior Court of Justice;

(b) in the Province of Quebec, the Superior Court;

(c) in the Provinces of Nova Scotia, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, the Supreme Court;

(d) in the Provinces of New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Court of Queen’s Bench;

(e) in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Trial Division of the Supreme Court; and

(f) in Nunavut, the Nunavut Court of Justice.

Rules of procedure

(3) An application shall be dealt with without delay and in a summary way. The court may, however, allow oral evidence to be given at the hearing of the application in specific circumstances.

2000, c. 9, s. 525; 2002, c. 7, s. 94(E), c. 8, s. 117; 2014, c. 12, s. 111.