Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders Act Amendment Act 1923 (WA)

1923.] Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance [No. 29.

Orders.

RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF

MAINTENANCE ORDERS.

14° GEO. V., No. VIII.

No. 29 of 1923.

AN ACT to amend the Reciprocal Enforcement of

Maintenance Orders Act, 1921.

[Assented to 15th December, 1923.]

13 E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:-

1.    This Act may be cited as the Reciprocal Enforcement Short title.

of Maintenance Orders Act Amendment Act, 1923.

2.    The Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders Principal Act made

Act, 1921 (hereinafter called the principal Act), is hereby t=ailanatoesA.'

amended by the excision of the words "outside the Common-

wealth," wherever such words occur therein.

3.    Section two of the principal Act is hereby amended erupt of

by the deletion of the word "other" in the definition of Principal

"Superior Court."

4. Section seven of the principal Act is hereby amended Amendment of section,.

by the addition of a paragraph, as follows:—

The Governor may also make regulations not incon- sistent with this Act, prescribing all such matters as by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or as may be necessary or convenient to be prescribed for crivinc, effect to this Act.

No. 29.] Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance [1923.

Orders.

Amendment

Section 14. 5. Section fourteen of the principal Act is hereby

amended-

(i)    By the insertion in subsection two, after the word "Kingdom," of the words "and the States of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Aus- tralia, and Tasmania."

(ii)    By the repeal of subsection three, and the substitu- tion of a subsection, as follows:

(3) Where the Governor is satisfied that re- ciprocal provisions have been made or are about to be made by the legislature of any part of the King's Dominions or other competent authority, for the enforcement within that part of mainten- ance orders made by courts within this State, the Governor may, by Order in Council, extend this Act to that part. It shall not be necessary that the Governor shall be satisfied that full reciprocity has been or is about to be accorded by any part of the King's Dominions before extending this Act there- to, but a substantial measure of reciprocity shall suffice.

(iii)    By the addition of a subsection, as follows :—

(b) A copy of the Gazette purporting to contain a copy of a proclamation under this section shall be conclusive evidence of the validity of the pro- clamation and of the fulfilment of all conditions precedent to the valid making thereof.

This Act not to

repeal Inter-State	6. A section is inserted in the principal Act, as follows:-
Destitute Persons

Relief Act, 1912.

15. This Act shall not be deemed to repeal by impli-

cation the Inter-State Destitute Persons Relief Act, 1912.

Effect of amend-	7. The amendments made by section four and paragraphs
ments.

(ii) and (iii) of section five of this Act shall have effect as

from the commencement of the principal Act.