Family Law Rules (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1994

No. 61 1

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Family Law Rules 2(Amendment)

WE, Judges within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975, make the following Rules of Court under that Act.

Dated 25 February 1994.

 

 ALAN J. BARBLETT

 K. A. MURRAY

 E. R. BAKER

 ALWYNNE ROWLANDS

 T. E. LINDENMAYER

 J. V. KAY

 T. H. McGOVERN

 GRAHAM R. BELL

 GEOFFREY I. WALSH

 ADRIAN SMITHERS

 R. J. BULLEY

 EDWARD BUTLER

 PETER B. HASE

 RICHARD W. GEE

 D. BULBECK

 M. A. RENAUD

 J. S. PURDY

 RODNEY N. PURVIS

 J. WILCZEK

 W. ROURKE

 H. J. BURTON

 G. R. MULLANE

 JOHN COHEN

 I. R. COLEMAN

 P. F. A. HILTON

 B. J. WARNICK

 Judges of the Family Court

 of Australia

 

IAN J. LOUGHNAN

Principal Registrar

Family Court of Australia

 I. W. P. McCALL

 ALAN J. BARBLETT

 D. R. ANDERSON

 N. TOLCON

 MICHAEL H. HOLDEN

 Judges of the Family Court

 of Western Australia

 

C. E. MARTIN

Registrar

Family Court of Western Australia

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Family Law Rules are amended as set out in these Rules.

[NOTE:

 These Rules commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Order 34, rule 7 (Who may take proceedings)

2.1   Omit the rule, substitute:

Who may take proceedings

 “7.(1) Application may be made to the court, by filing an application, in accordance with Form 48 or Form 49, that any person alleged to have committed an offence or to be guilty of a failure to comply of a kind referred to in subrule 6 (1) or to have failed to comply with any other order made by the court or with a condition of a recognizance, be dealt with for that offence or failure to comply.

 “(2) Application to the court under subrule 7 (1):

• (a)

  may be made by:

  • (i)

    the Marshal; or

  • (ii)

    a member of the Australian Federal Police; or

  • (iii)

    a member of a police force of a State or Territory; or

  • (iv)

    an officer of the Attorney-General’s Department; or

• (b)

  at the direction of a Family Court—must be made by the Marshal.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 15 March 1994.

2. Statutory Rules 1984 No. 425 as amended by 1985 No. 341; 1986 Nos. 6 and 193; 1987 Nos. 15, 74 and 222; 1988 Nos. 9, 15, 16, 46, 166 and 236; 1989 Nos. 49, 65, 175, 201, 266 and 331; 1990 Nos. 20, 74, 348 and 474; 1991 Nos. 122, 414, 475 and 476; 1992 Nos. 8, 45, 161 and 304; 1993 Nos. 51 and 160; 1994 Nos. 25, 58, 59 and 60.