Family Law Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 1391

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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, hereby make the following Regulations under the Family Law Act 1975.

Dated 27 June 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GARETH EVANS

Attorney-General

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Reciprocating countries

1. Regulation 142 of the Family Law Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting—

“Isle of Man”

and substituting—

“Guernsey, Alderney and Sark

Isle of Man

Jersey”; and

(b) by omitting—

“Tanzania (excluding Zanzibar)”

and substituting—

“Tanzania (excluding Zanzibar)

Territory of Christmas Island

Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands”.

2. Regulation 143 of the Family Law Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Countries with restricted reciprocity

“143. The following countries are declared to be countries with restricted reciprocity for the purposes of section 110 of the Act:

Alaska

Alberta

Arkansas

British Columbia

California

Connecticut

Cook Islands (including Niue)

Cyprus

Delaware

Florida

Gibraltar

Hong Kong

India

Indiana

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Malta

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Missouri

Montana

Newfoundland

New Brunswick

New Mexico

New York

Northwest Territories

Nova Scotia

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Prince Edward Island

South Africa (excluding Namibia)

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia

Western Samoa

Wisconsin

Yukon.”.

Certain orders to be provisional only

3. Regulation 153 of the Family Law Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1) the following sub-regulation:

“(1a) A provisional order in accordance with sub-regulation (1) may be made notwithstanding the fact that the respondent has not been served with the

 

application to the court and has not consented to the order proposed in the application.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1984.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 210 as amended by 1976 Nos. 97 and 213; 1977 No. 172; 1979 No. 146; 1980 No. 215; 1982 Nos. 244 and 295; 1983 Nos. 243, 273 and 280.