ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 15C Jurisdiction of courts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 15C

    Where a provision of an Act, whether expressly or by implication, authorises 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)   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.