CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 694.35 Meaning of court and Court
CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 694.35
Meaning of court and Court(1) Subject to subsection (2), in this Act:
"court" means any court.
"Court" means any of the following courts:
(a) the Federal Court;
(b) the Supreme Court of a State or Territory;
(c) the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1);
(d) a court to which section 41 of the Family Law Act 1975 applies because of a Proclamation made under subsection 41(2) of that Act.
(2) Except where there is a clear expression of a contrary intention (for example, by use of the expression the Court ), proceedings in relation to a matter under this Act may, subject to section 581 - 30 and Part 14 - 3, be brought in any court.
Note 1: Section 581 - 30 requires certain proceedings relating to registered native title bodies corporate to be instituted in the Federal Court.
Note 2: The matters dealt with in Part 14 - 3 include the
applicability of limits on the jurisdictional competence of courts.