New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FEDERAL COURTS (STATE JURISDICTION) ACT 1999 - SECT 6

6 Rights and liabilities declared in certain cases

The rights and liabilities of all persons are, by force of this Act, declared to be, and always to have been, the same as if:

(a) each ineffective judgment of:

(i) the Federal Court of Australia, otherwise than as a Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, or

(ii) the Family Court of Australia, otherwise than as a Full Court of the Family Court of Australia,

had been a valid judgment of the Supreme Court in a Division constituted by a Judge of the Supreme Court, and

(b) each ineffective judgment of:

(i) a Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, or

(ii) a Full Court of the Family Court of Australia,

had been a valid judgment of the Supreme Court in the Court of Appeal.