 Thus the Victorian court found that a considerable transformation had ostensibly occurred.The court found that "the ecclesiastical appearance now assumed by the organization is no more than colourable in order to serve an ulterior purpose", namely that the purpose of acquiring the legal status of a religion so that the organisation might have the fiscal and other benefits of that status in Australia and elsewhere and the purpose of avoiding the legal disabilities to which the organisation was subject by reason of the Psychological Practices Act 1965 (Vict.