Family Law Amendment (Family Violence Measures) Regulations 2019

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 regulations.

Dated 21 February 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Christian Porter

Attorney‑General

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Family Law Regulations 1984

1  Name

  This instrument is the Family Law Amendment (Family Violence Measures) Regulations 2019.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  Paragraph 12CC(1)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (a) makes or varies a family violence order (whether or not by interim order); and

2  Subregulation 12CC(1)

Omit “Family Court”, substitute “court that made the order, injunction or arrangement so revived, varied, discharged or suspended”.

3  After regulation 39C

Insert:

39CA  Prescribed courts and applicable rules of court

 (1) For the purposes of subsection 69GA(1) of the Act, the Local Court of the Northern Territory is prescribed.

 (2) For the purposes of subsection 69GA(3) of the Act, the Local Court (Civil Jurisdiction) Rules (NT) are prescribed in relation to the Local Court of the Northern Territory.

 (3) This regulation is repealed at the end of 30 June 2020.