Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1976 No. 157 of 1976 - SECT 4

4. (1) The amendments made by this Act do not affect the jurisdiction of the
Australian Industrial Court in any proceedings the hearing of which had
commenced before the date of commencement of this Act.

(2) Where, immediately before the date of commencement of this Act,
proceedings in a matter arising under an Act specified in the Schedule were
pending in the Australian Industrial Court but the hearing of the proceedings
had not commenced-

   (a)  the proceedings are, by force of this Act, transferred to the Federal
        Court of Australia on the date of commencement of this Act;

   (b)  the Federal Court of Australia may hear and determine the proceedings;

   (c)  all documents filed of record in the Australian Industrial Court in
        the proceedings shall be transmitted to the Registrar of the Federal
        Court of Australia; and

   (d)  any moneys lodged with the Australian Industrial Court in relation to
        the proceedings shall be transferred to the Federal Court of Australia
        and dealt with as if they had been lodged with that Court;

   (e)  all things done in and in relation to the proceedings in the
        Australian Industrial Court shall be deemed to have been done in and
        in relation to the proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia.

(3) The Federal Court of Australia has the same powers (including powers in
respect of contempt of court and enforcing of orders) in respect of an order
of the Australian Industrial Court made, whether before or after the
commencement of this Act, under an Act referred to in the Schedule as if it
were an order of the Federal Court of Australia.

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