EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
(Statutory Rules 1989: No. 8)
Section 125 of the Family Law Act 1975 provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act. Section 44A of the Act provides that regulations may provide that proceedings for a decree of dissolution of marriage may not be instituted in a court of summary jurisdiction other than a prescribed court.
Previously, regulation 10A of the Family Law Regulations provided that proceedings for a decree of dissolution of marriage may not be instituted in a court of summary jurisdiction, other than in a particular court in Western Australia which it prescribes.
This regulation amended regulation 10A to prescribe the Magistrates Court in the ACT for the purposes of section 44A.