Interstate Maintenance Recovery Act Amendment Act 1960 (WA)

1960.] Interstate Maintenance Recovery. [No. 26.

INTERSTATE MAINTENANCE

RECOVERY.

9° Elizabeth II., No. XXVI.

No. 26 of 1960.

AN ACT to amend the Interstate Maintenance

Recovery Act, 1959.

[Assented to 21st October, 1960.]

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:—

Short title

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

Maintenance Recovery Act Amendment Act, 1960.

(2) In this Act the Interstate Maintenance

Recovery Act, 1959, is referred to as the principal

Act.

No. 26.] Interstate Maintenance Recovery. [1960.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Interstate Maintenance Recovery Act, 1959-1960.

Commence-

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

on which the principal Act comes into operation.

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amended. 3. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section

eight of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by deleting the words, "and at least one justice" in lines five and six of subpara- graph (i); and
(b)	by adding after the passage, "1947," in line four of subparagraph (ii), the passage, "and consisting of a special Magistrate sitting alone,".

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amended.	4. Section ten of the principal Act is amended by deleting the passage, "by any justice or by any court," in line seven.
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amended.	5. Subsection (1) of section eighteen of the principal Act is amended by adding after paragraph (b) the following paragraph:

(c) Where the appropriate court referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection is a court of summary jurisdiction, it shall be constituted in accordance with the provisions of subsection (4) of section eight of this Act.