Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 No. 156 of 1976 - SECT 57

57. (1) The Court may, at any stage of a proceeding on such terms and
conditions as the Court thinks fit, appoint a receiver by interlocutory order
in any case in which it appears to the Court to be just or convenient so to
do.

(2) A receiver of any property appointed by the Court may, without the
previous leave of the Court, be sued in respect of an act or transaction done
or entered into by him in carrying on the business connected with the
property.

(3) When in any cause pending in the Court a receiver appointed by the Court
is in possession of property, the receiver shall manage and deal with the
property according to the requirements of the laws of the State or Territory
in which the property is situated, in the same manner as that in which the
owner or possessor of the property would be bound to do if in possession of
the property.