96CEffect of absence of decision that court did not have jurisdiction

96C Effect of absence of decision that court did not have jurisdiction (1) That section applies if— (a) before the jurisdiction commencement, proceedings in respect of a civil matter under the Corporations Law of Victoria were commenced in a court (the ***first court***) other than the Court; and (b) either— (i) no court expressly decided, before the jurisdiction commencement, whether the first court had jurisdiction in respect of the matter; or (ii) a decision of the first court, or of another court on appeal from a decision of the first court, that the first court did have jurisdiction in respect of the matter still stands at the jurisdiction commencement. (2) For the purposes of any consideration by a court, after the jurisdiction commencement, of whether the first court had jurisdiction in respect of the matter, the first court is taken to have had jurisdiction in respect of the matter if it would have had that jurisdiction if the jurisdiction amendments had commenced before the cause of action arose. S. 96D inserted by No. 22/2000 s. 19.