Family Courts Amendment Act Commencement Order 2002
Family Courts Amendment Act Commencement Order 2002
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Family Courts Amendment Act Commencement Order 2002
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Family Courts Amendment Act Commencement Order 2002
Note
This order is administered in the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Courts.
Pursuant to section 2 of the Family Courts Amendment Act 2000, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following order.
1 Title
This order is the Family Courts Amendment Act Commencement Order 2002.
2 Commencement of Family Courts Amendment Act 2000
The Family Courts Amendment Act 2000 comes into force on 13 September 2002.
Marie Shroff,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This order brings into force on 13 September 2002 the Family Courts Amendment Act 2000. The Family Courts Amendment Act 2000—
•inserts in the Family Courts Act 1980 a new section 12, which, while Family Courts Rules are in force, requires proceedings in Family Courts (and related proceedings in District Courts) to be brought and dealt with under those rules, unless the Act under which the proceedings are brought provides for them to be brought or dealt with under some enactment other than those rules; and
•inserts in the Family Courts Act 1980 a new section 16A, which is a power to make Family Courts Rules (that is, rules regulating the practice and procedure of Family Courts in proceedings that they have jurisdiction to hear and determine); and
•makes consequential amendments to the Family Courts Act 1980 and other Acts.
Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.
Date of notification in Gazette: 12 September 2002.
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