Family Court Act Amendment Act 1976 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

FAMILY COURT.

No. 16 of 1976.

AN ACT to amend the Family Court Act, 1975.

[Assented to 31st May, 1976.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Family and citation.

Court Act Amendment Act, 1976.

(2) In this Act the Family Court Act, 1975 is

referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Family Court Act, 1975-1976.

No. 16.] Family Court. [1976.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the date

on which the principal Act comes into operation.

Section 33	3.	Section 33 of the principal Act is amended
amended.

(a)	as to subsection (1), by adding after the word "order" in the last line, the passage ", and, in relation to a decree of the Family Court of Western Australia, includes an order dismissing an appeal from a court of summary jurisdiction"; and
(b)	by adding a subsection as follows

(5) Upon an appeal under this section, the Family Court of Western Australia or the Full Court of the Supreme Court, as the case may be, may affirm, reverse, or vary the decree the subject of the appeal and may make such decree as, in the opinion of the Court, ought to have been made in the first instance, or may, if it thinks fit, order a re-hearing, on such terms and conditions, if any, as it thinks fit. .