Family Court Amendment Rules 2002 (WA)

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 29 November 2002

JUSTICE

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Family Court Act 1997

Family Court Amendment Rules 2002

Made by the Judges of the Family Court of Western Australia under section 244 of the Act.

1.            Citation

These rules may be cited as the Family Court Amendment
Rules 2002.

2.            Commencement

These rules come into operation on the same day that the Family
Court Amendment Act 2002 comes into operation.

3.            The rules amended

The amendment in these rules is to the Family Court Rules 1998*.
[* Published in Gazette 6 October 1998, p. 5573-85.]
4.	Rule 35 inserted After rule 34 the following rule is inserted -

35. Notification to spouse - s. 205ZB(3)

For the purposes of section 205ZB(3), a de facto partner who -

information sheet; and

(a)	has a spouse; and
(b)	is a party to an application under Part 5A Division 2 of the Act,

is to give notification of the application to his or her

spouse -

(c)	if the defacto partner has filed the application, by serving on his or her spouse a copy of that application and, if filed, the information sheet; and
(d)	if the de facto partner has filed a response to the application, by serving on his or her spouse a copy of-

(i) that application and, if filed, the

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(ii) that response,

as soon as is practicable after filing the application or

response, as is applicable.

Dated:

Signed:

MICHAEL HOLDEN.
NICHOLAS TOLCON.
CAROLYN MARTIN.
JOHN BARLOW.

JULIENNE PENNY.