Catchwords:

CORPORATIONS – applications to discharge order made upon the reinstatement of the registration of several companies pursuant to s 601AH(3)(d) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Corporations Act) – where order provided that the period between the date of the relevant companies’ deregistration and the date of the reinstatement order be disregarded for the purpose of calculating the period ending three years after the relation-back day (Order 3) – where order was made granting the persons against whom proceedings were commenced relying on Order 3 liberty to apply to vary or discharge Order 3 – where the three year limitation period under s 588FF(3) of the Corporations Act had expired at the time Order 3 was made – whether the Court has power to make Order 3 – whether s 536 (now repealed) of the Corporations Act empowered the Court to make an order like Order 3 – where primary judge held there was no power to make Order 3 – appeal dismissed