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Family Law Amendment Act 1997

  • - C2004A05129
  • No longer in force
Act No. 25 of 1997 as made
An Act to amend the Family Law Act 1975
Date of Assent 10 Apr 1997
Date of repeal 10 Mar 2016
Repealed by Amending Acts 1990 to 1999 Repeal Act 2016
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Family Law Amendment Act 1997

 

No. 25, 1997

 

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Family Law Act 1975

  


Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................

2............ Commencement..................................................................................

3............ Schedule(s)..........................................................................................

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Family Law Act 1975                           

 


Family Law Amendment Act 1997

No. 25, 1997

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Family Law Act 1975

[Assented to 10 April 1997]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

                   This Act may be cited as the Family Law Amendment Act 1997.

2  Commencement

                   This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

                   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.


 

Schedule 1Amendment of the Family Law Act 1975

1  At the end of paragraphs 125(1)(a), (b), (ba), (c) and (e)

Add “and”.

2  After paragraph 125(1)(c)

Insert:

                    (ca)  prescribing fees to be payable in respect of the use of the counselling or mediation facilities of the Family Court in situations other than where a court orders or directs a person to attend the counselling or mediation; and

3  At the end of paragraph 125(1)(d)

Add “and fees prescribed under paragraph (ca); and”.

4  Paragraph 125(1)(e)

After “paragraph (c)”, insert “and fees prescribed under paragraph (ca)”.

(111/96)


 

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 11 September 1996

Senate on 9 December 1996]