(EXPLANATORY STATEMENT)
FAMILY LAW ACT 1975
Family Law Regulations (Amendment)
(Statutory Rules 1986 No. 393)
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 add the ACT Domestic Violence Ordinance 1986, which came into effect on 1 October 1986, to the laws already prescribed by regulation 19 of the Family Law Regulations for the purposes of sections 114 and 114AA of the Act.
The amending regulations also increase the number of US States listed in Schedule 2 to the Family Law Regulations as reciprocating jurisdictions, for the purposes of enforcement of maintenance orders, by the addition of 8 more States.
(Authorized by the Attorney-General)
SR 391/84