FAMILY LAW ACT 1975
FAMILY LAW REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
(Statutory Rules 1989 No 205)
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
This regulation amends the Family Law Regulations to prescribe the domestic legislation of Queensland and the Northern Territory for the purposes of subsections 114AB(1) and (2) and to make a drafting change.
2. Paragraph (a) amends paragraph (b) of regulation 19 by substituting a reference to the Domestic Violence (Family Protection) Act 1989 of the State of Queensland in place of the existing reference to the Peace and Good Behaviour Act 1982 of that State.
3. Paragraph (b) makes a drafting change to paragraph 9(c) to avoid any question that a Division or Part of a law can be characterised as a law, having regard to the reference in subsections 114AB (1) and (2) of the Act to “a prescribed law”.
4. Paragraph (c) adds a new paragraph (g) to regulation 19 to prescribe the domestic violence legislation contained in the Justices Act of the Northern Territory for the purposes of subsections 114AB(1) and (2) of the Act.
Authority: Issued by the Attorney-General