54Conduct of proceedings

#### 54 Conduct of proceedings (1) Subject to sections 60, 61 and 61A, where it appears to a court that, in determining a matter for determination in a proceeding, the court will, or will be likely to, be exercising relevant jurisdiction, the rules of evidence and procedure to be applied in dealing with that matter are to be such as the court considers appropriate in the circumstances, being rules that are applied in a superior court in Australia or in an external Territory. (2) Where a proceeding is transferred or removed to a court (in this subsection called the transferee court) from another court (in this subsection called the transferor court), the transferee court must deal with the proceeding as if, subject to any order of the transferee court, the steps that had been taken for the purposes of the proceeding in the transferor court (including the making of an order), or similar steps, had been taken in the transferee court. (3) In this section: > relevant jurisdiction means: (a) jurisdiction conferred on the Federal Court of Australia or the Family Court with respect to civil matters arising under the Corporations Law of the Capital Territory; or (b) jurisdiction conferred on the Federal Court of Australia or the Family Court with respect to civil matters arising under the Corporations Law of the Northern Territory, being jurisdiction that is being exercised by the Federal Court or the Family Court, as the case may be, sitting in the Capital Territory; or (c) jurisdiction conferred on a court of the Capital Territory with respect to civil matters arising under the Corporations Law of a State; or (d) jurisdiction conferred on a court of a State with respect to civil matters arising under the Corporations Law of the Capital Territory; or (e) jurisdiction conferred on a court of a State or the Capital Territory with respect to matters referred to in subsection 51(2A).