(EXPLANATORY STATEMENT)
FAMILY LAW ACT 1975
Family Law Regulations (Amendment)
(Statutory Rules 1987 No. 175)
Sub-section 125(1) of the Act empowers the Governor-General to make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The amending regulations increase the fee for divorce or nullity proceedings in regulation 11 of the Family Law Regulations from $200 to $240 and the fee for appeals in regulation 16 from $300 to $360.
The amending regulations add the Crimes (Family Violence) Act 1987 of Victoria, which comes into effect on 1 September 1987, to the laws already prescribed by regulation 19 of the Family Law Regulations for the purposes of sections 114AB of the Act.
The amending regulations also increase the number of States of the U.S.A. listed in Schedule 2 to the Family Law Regulations as reciprocating jurisdictions, for the purposes of enforcement of maintenance orders, by the addition of Illinois and Vermont.
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