Family Law Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 1651

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Family Law Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and pursuant to section 4 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901,hereby make the following Regulation under the Family Law Act 1975.

Dated 30 June 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Lionel Bowen

Attorney-General

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After regulation 10 of the Family Law Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Proceedings not to be instituted in court of summary jurisdiction except prescribed court

“10a. (1) Subject to subregulation (2), proceedings for a decree of dissolution of marriage may not be instituted in, or transferred to, a court of summary jurisdiction.

“(2) For the purposes of section 44a of the Act, a court constituted by a stipendiary magistrate who is the Registrar or a Deputy Registrar of the Family Court of Western Australia is a prescribed court.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 June 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1984 No. 426 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1988 No. 42 and see also Statutory Rules 1988 Nos. 42, 44 and 164.

Printed by Authority by the Commonwealth Government Printer

(S.R. 192/88)––Cat. No. 16/23.6.1988