Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 No. 156 of 1976 - SECT 13

13. (1) For the purposes of the organization and conduct of the business of
the Court, the Court comprises 2 Divisions, namely, the Industrial Division
and the General Division, and every proceeding in the Court shall be
instituted, heard and determined in one of those Divisions.

(2) Jurisdiction of the Court that is required by any Act to be exercised in
the Industrial Division, and jurisdiction incidental to the exercise of any
such jurisdiction, shall be exercised in the Industrial Division, and all
other jurisdiction of the Court shall be exercised in the General Division.

(3) A Judge (including the Chief Judge) who is not attached to a Division of
the Court may take part in the exercise of the jurisdiction of the Court in
either Division but, subject to sub-section (4), a Judge who is attached to a
Division of the Court shall take part in the exercise of the jurisdiction of
the Court in that Division only.

(4) Where he considers that circumstances make it desirable to do so, the
Chief Judge may, with the consent of the Judge concerned, arrange for a Judge
who is attached to a Division of the Court to take part in the exercise of the
jurisdiction of the Court in the other Division of the Court, and the Judge
may take part in the exercise of that jurisdiction accordingly.