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.