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the commencing day, proceedings instituted in a former court were uncompleted—
      (a) the proceedings are, by force of this Act, transferred to the Federal Court of Australia on the commencing day;
      (b) the Federal Court of Australia may hear, or further hear, the proceedings, if the hearing was not completed before the commencing day, and may determine the proceedings, and, for those purposes, a Judge exercising the jurisdiction of the Federal Court of Australia may have regard to any evidence or argument in the proceedings as proceedings in the former court;
      (c) all documents filed or lodged, or moneys lodged, in relation to the proceedings as proceedings in the former court shall be deemed to have been filed or lodged in relation to the proceedings as so transferred to the Federal Court of Australia; and
      (d) all things done in or in relation to the proceedings as proceedings in the former court shall be deemed to have been done in or in relation to the proceedings as proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia.
(3) An order, direction or warrant made, given or issued by a former court or a Judge of a former court and in force immediately before the commencing day continues in force, and may be enforced, rescinded, varied, suspended or discharged, and proceedings for contempt of court may be had in relation to such an order or direction, as if the order, direction or warrant had been made, given or issued by the Federal Court of Australia or a Judge of that Court.

(4) Where—
      (a) a bankruptcy notice issued under the Principal Act before the commencing day specified a former court as the court to the satisfaction of which payment of a sum could be secured by the judgment debtor; and
      (b) the time for compliance with the bankruptcy notice had not expired before the commencing day,
the notice has effect on and after that day as if the Federal Court of Australia were the same court as the former court.
(5) Where an order or a notice, summons or other document made or issued by or in relation to proceedings in a former court before the commencing day refers to the former court, the reference shall, for the purposes of the operation of the order or document on or after that day, and for the purposes of proceedings to which this section applies, be deemed to be a reference to the Federal Court of Australia.

PART IX—AMENDMENTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918

Principal Act
31. The Commonwealth Electoral Act 19188 is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.

Persons entitled to enrolment and to vote
32. Section 39 of the Principal