Child Support Legislation (Exclusion of Courts of Summary Jurisdiction) Proclamation 2017

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

Signed and Sealed with the

Great Seal of Australia on

 24 August 2017

Peter Cosgrove

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Christian Porter

Minister for Social Services

 

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Jurisdictional restriction

Schedule 1—Repeals

Summary Courts Jurisdiction — Child Support (Assessment) Proclamation 2007

Summary Courts Jurisdiction — Child Support (Registration and Collection) Proclamation 2007

1  Name

  This instrument is the Child Support Legislation (Exclusion of Courts of Summary Jurisdiction) Proclamation 2017.

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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

1 October 2017.

1 October 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 following:

 (a) subsection 99(3) of the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989;

 (b) subsection 104(3) of the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5  Jurisdictional restriction

  On and after 1 October 2017, proceedings in relation to matters arising under the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 or the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 may not be instituted in, or transferred to, a court of summary jurisdiction in New South Wales mentioned in an item of the following table.

 

Courts of summary jurisdiction

Item

Name of court

Location of court

1

Central Local Court

98 Liverpool Street, Sydney

2

Downing Centre Local Court

The following locations:

(a) Levels 4 and 5, Downing Centre, 143147 Liverpool Street, Sydney;

(b) Level 4, John Maddison Tower, 86 Goulburn Street, Sydney

3

Local Court Newtown

222 Australia Street, Newtown

4

Local Court North Sydney

94 Pacific Highway, North Sydney

 

Schedule 1Repeals

 

Summary Courts Jurisdiction — Child Support (Assessment) Proclamation 2007

1  The whole of the Proclamation

Repeal the Proclamation.

Summary Courts Jurisdiction — Child Support (Registration and Collection) Proclamation 2007

2  The whole of the Proclamation

Repeal the Proclamation.