Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENT ACT 1976 No. 161 of 1976 - SECT 5

5. Where, immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, proceedings
were pending in the Federal Court of Bankruptcy 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 or lodged, or moneys lodged, with a Registrar in
        Bankruptcy in relation to the proceedings shall be deemed to have been
        filed or lodged in relation to the proceedings as so transferred to
        the Federal Court of Australia; and

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