50Interpretation

#### 50 Interpretation (1) In this Division: > civil matter means a matter other than a criminal matter. > Commonwealth authority means an authority or other body (whether incorporated or not) that is established or continued in existence by or under an Act. > Corporations Law has the extended meaning given by subsection (2). > Family Court means the Family Court of Australia. > Full Court, in relation to a Supreme Court of a State or Territory, includes any court of the State or Territory to which appeals lie from a single judge of that Supreme Court. > judgment means a judgment, decree or order, whether final or interlocutory. > lower court means a court of a State or Territory that is not a superior court. > officer of the Commonwealth has the same meaning as in paragraph 75(v) of the Constitution. > State Family Court, in relation to a State, means a court of that State to which section 41 of the Family Law Act 1975 applies because of a Proclamation made under subsection 41(2) of that Act. > superior court means the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of a State or Territory, the Family Court or a State Family Court. > superior court matter means a civil matter that the Corporations Law clearly intends (for example, by use of the expression “the Court”) to be dealt with only by a superior court. (2) In this Division: (a) a reference to the Corporations Law of the Capital Territory includes a reference to: (i) the Corporations Regulations of the Capital Territory; and (ii) the ASIC Law of the Capital Territory; and (iii) the ASIC Regulations of the Capital Territory; and (iv) any other applicable provisions (as defined in section 4) of the Capital Territory; and (v) this Act; and (vi) regulations made under section 73 of this Act or section 252 of the ASC Law of the Capital Territory; and (vii) rules of court made by the Federal Court, the Supreme Court of the Capital Territory, or the Family Court, because of a provision of this Act; and (viii) rules of court applied by the Supreme Court, or a State Family Court, of a State when exercising jurisdiction conferred by this Division (including jurisdiction conferred by virtue of any previous application or applications of this subparagraph); and (b) a reference to the Corporations Law of a State is a reference to the Corporations Law of that State within the meaning of the law of that State corresponding to this Division.