Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 15C

                   Where a provision of an Act, whether expressly or by implication, authorizes a civil or criminal proceeding to be instituted in a particular court in relation to a matter:

                     (a)  that provision shall be deemed to vest that court with jurisdiction in that matter;

                     (b)  except so far as the contrary intention appears, the jurisdiction so vested is not limited by any limits to which any other jurisdiction of the court may be subject; and

                     (c)  in the case of a court of a Territory, that provision shall be construed as providing that the jurisdiction is vested so far only as the Constitution permits.