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.