Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NORTHERN TERRITORY SUPREME COURT (REPEAL) ACT 1979 No. 85, 1979 - SECT 5

5. For the purposes of-

   (a)  any proceedings in the High Court or the Federal Court of Australia
        pending immediately before the commencing date (including proceedings
        the hearing of which had not com- menced before that date) or
        instituted on or after that date, being proceedings in relation to
        proceedings in the Supreme Court as established by the Northern
        Territory Supreme Court Act 1961; or

   (b)  any right of appeal that lay immediately before the commencing date
        (whether or not subject to conditions as to leave to appeal or other
        conditions) to the High Court or the Federal Court of Australia from a
        judgment of the Supreme Court as so established, the Supreme Court as
        established by the Supreme Court Act 1979 of the Northern Territory
        shall be deemed to be a continuation in existence, without any change
        in identity, of the Supreme Court as established by the Northern
        Territory Supreme Court Act 1961.