Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 32AA

  (1)   Proceedings must not be instituted in the Court in respect of a matter if:

  (a)   the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division   2) has jurisdiction in that matter; and

  (b)   proceedings in respect of an associated matter are pending in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division   2).

  (2)   If:

  (a)   proceedings are instituted in the Court in contravention of subsection   (1); and

  (b)   the proceedings are subsequently transferred to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division   2);

the proceedings are taken to be as valid as they would have been if subsection   (1) had not been enacted.