Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Section 55E of the Judiciary Act 1903 continues to apply in relation to:
(a) any proceedings to which the Snowy Hydro Company is a party that were started before the corporatisation date; and
(b) any matter that an authorised person, by writing, certifies to be a matter in relation to which the Snowy Mountains Hydro - electric Authority gave written instructions before the corporatisation date to the Australian Government Solicitor; and
(c) any matter that an authorised person, by writing, certifies to be a matter involving a claim against the Company in respect of which the Commonwealth agreed to indemnify the Authority or has agreed to indemnify the Company;
as if the Company were a body established by an Act.
(2) A document purporting to be a certificate under subsection ( 1) is, unless the contrary is established, taken to be such a certificate.
(3) In this section:
"authorised person" means:
(a) the Secretary of the Attorney - General's Department; or
(b) a person holding or performing the duties of a Senior Executive Service office, within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1922 , in that Department.