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BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENT ACT 1976 No. 161 of 1976 - SECT 6

6. (1) Sections 38 and 39 of the Principal Act are repealed and the following
section substituted:- Appeals to Federal Court of Australia.
''38. An appeal from a judgment, order or sentence given or pronounced after
the commencement of this section by a State Court exercising jurisdiction in
bankruptcy or by the Federal Court of Bankruptcy may be brought to the Federal
Court of Australia and not otherwise.''.

(2) An appeal to the High Court from a judgment, order or sentence of a State
Court exercising jurisdiction in bankruptcy or of the Federal Court of
Bankruptcy given or pronounced before the date of commencement of this Act
shall not be brought except in accordance with leave given in accordance with
section 39 of the Principal Act before that date.

(3) Where, immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, a person
had a right of appeal, otherwise than in accordance with leave referred to in
sub-section (2), or to seek leave to appeal, to the High Court from a judgment
of a State Court exercising jurisdiction in bankruptcy or of the Federal Court
of Bankruptcy given before that date, that right is, by force of this section,
converted into a corresponding right to appeal or to seek leave to appeal to
the Federal Court of Australia. 


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