Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

JUDICIARY ACT 1903 - SECT 33

             (1)  The High Court may make orders or direct the issue of writs:

                     (a)  commanding the performance by any court invested with federal jurisdiction, of any duty relating to the exercise of its federal jurisdiction; or

                     (b)  requiring any court to abstain from the exercise of any federal jurisdiction which it does not possess; or

                     (c)  commanding the performance of any duty by any person holding office under the Commonwealth; or

                     (d)  removing from office any person wrongfully claiming to hold any office under the Commonwealth; or

                     (e)  of mandamus; or

                      (f)  of habeas corpus .

             (2)  This section shall not be taken to limit by implication the power of the High Court to make any order or direct the issue of any writ.