Family Law Amendment (Publication of Court Proceedings) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 137, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 20 August 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

George Brandis QC

Attorney‑General

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Family Law Regulations 1984

1  Name

  This is the Family Law Amendment (Publication of Court Proceedings) Regulation 2015.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Family Law Act 1975.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Family Law Regulations 1984

1  After regulation 19

Insert:

19A  Exceptions to restriction on publishing Court proceedings—States and Territories authorities that have responsibilities relating to the welfare of children

  For paragraph 121(9)(aa) of the Act, each of the following authorities is prescribed:

 (a) for New South Wales—the Department of Family and Community Services;

 (b) for Victoria—the Department of Health and Human Services;

 (c) for Queensland—the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services;

 (d) for Western Australia—the Department for Child Protection and Family Support;

 (e) for South Australia—the Department for Education and Child Development;

 (f) for Tasmania—the Department of Health and Human Services;

 (g) for the Australian Capital Territory—the Department of Community Services;

 (h) for the Northern Territory—the Department of Children and Families.