Family Law Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous 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 March 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 (Child Abduction Convention) Regulations 1986

Family Law (Child Protection Convention) Regulations 2003

Family Law Regulations 1984

1  Name

  This instrument is the Family Law Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Child Abduction Convention) Regulations 1986

1  Subregulation 2(1) (definition of convention country)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

convention country means any country in respect of which the Convention has entered into force with Australia.

Note: A list of countries in respect of which the Convention has entered into force with Australia could in 2019 be viewed on the Department’s website (https://www.ag.gov.au).

2  Regulation 10

Repeal the regulation.

3  Paragraph 11(2)(a)

Omit “Form 1”, substitute “a form approved, in writing, by the Minister under subregulation (2A)”.

4  After subregulation 11(2)

Insert:

 (2A) The Minister may approve a form, in writing, for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a).

5  Paragraph 23(2)(a)

Omit “Form 3”, substitute “a form approved, in writing, by the Minister under subregulation (2A)”.

6  After subregulation 23(2)

Insert:

 (2A) The Minister may approve a form, in writing, for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a).

7  After Part 5

Insert:

Part 6—Application, transitional and saving provisions

Division 1—Saving provisions relating to the Family Law (Child Abduction Convention) Regulations 1986

32  Saving of forms

 (1) Despite the amendments made by items 3, 4 and 9 of Schedule 1 to the Family Law Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Regulations 2019, Form 1 in Schedule 3, as in force immediately before the commencement of those items, continues in force after that commencement until the Minister approves a form under subregulation 11(2A).

 (2) Despite the amendments made by items 5, 6 and 9 of Schedule 1 to the Family Law Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Regulations 2019, Form 3 in Schedule 3, as in force immediately before the commencement of those items, continues in force after that commencement until the Minister approves a form under subregulation 23(2A).

8  Schedule 2

Repeal the Schedule.

9  Schedule 3

Repeal the following:

 (a) the entirety of the form titled “Form 1—Request for return of child abducted from Australia”;

 (b) the entirety of the form titled “Form 3—Request for access to a child in a convention country”.

Family Law (Child Protection Convention) Regulations 2003

10  Subregulation 3(3)

Repeal the subregulation.

11  Subregulation 12(1)

Omit “regulation 10”, substitute “regulation 11”.

12  Subregulation 23(2)

Omit “regulation 25”, substitute “regulation 30”.

13  Schedule 1

Repeal the Schedule.

Family Law Regulations 1984

14  Subparagraph 12BA(a)(i)

Omit “Minister for Community Services”, substitute “Minister for Family and Community Services”.

15  Paragraph 12BA(b)

Omit “to the Department of Health and Human Services”, substitute “of the Department of Communities Tasmania”.

16  Paragraph 12BA(c)

Omit “to the Department of Human Services”, substitute “of the Department of Health and Human Services”.

17  Paragraph 12BA(d)

Omit “Department of Communities”, substitute “Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women”.

18  Subparagraph 12BA(e)(i)

Omit “Chief Executive of the Department of Education Youth and Family Services”, substitute “Director‑General of the Community Services Directorate”.

19  Subparagraph 12BA(e)(ii)

Omit “section 112 of the Mental Health (Treatment and Care) Act 1994 (ACT)”, substitute “subsection 196(1) of the Mental Health Act 2015 (ACT)”.

20  Paragraph 12BA(f)

Omit “Health and Community Services”, substitute “Territory Families”.

21  Paragraph 12BC (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

22  Paragraph 12CB(a)

Omit “Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs”, substitute “Jobs and Small Business”.

23  Paragraph 12CB(c)

Omit “and Family Services”.

24  Paragraph 12CB(d)

Omit “Immigration and Multicultural Affairs”, substitute “Home Affairs”.

25  At the end of regulation 12CB

Add:

 ; (h) Department of Education and Training;

 (i) Department of Social Services.

26  Regulation 13

Omit “paragraphs 65Y(2)(a), 65Z(2)(a), 65ZA(3)(a) and 65ZB(3)(a)”, substitute “subparagraphs 65Y(1)(c)(i), 65YA(1)(b)(i), 65Z(1)(c)(i), 65ZAA(1)(b)(i), 65ZA(1)(g)(i) and 65ZB(1)(g)(i)”.

27  Regulation 15AB (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

28  Paragraph 19(g)

Omit “Domestic Violence and Protection Orders Act 2008 (ACT)”, substitute “Family Violence Act 2016 (ACT)”.

29  Paragraph 19A(c)

Omit “Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services”, substitute “Child Safety, Youth and Women”.

30  Paragraph 19A(d)

Omit “for Child Protection and Family Support”, substitute “of Communities”.

31  Paragraph 19A(e)

Omit “Education and Child Development”, substitute “Child Protection”.

32  Paragraph 19A(f)

Omit “Health and Human Services”, substitute “Communities Tasmania”.

33  Paragraph 19A(g)

Omit “Department of Community Services”, substitute “Community Services Directorate”.

34  Paragraph 19A(h)

Omit “the Department of Children and Families”, substitute “Territory Families”.

35  Schedule 2

Repeal the list, substitute the following list:

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Brunei

Canada, the following Provinces and Territories:

  The Canadian Province of Alberta

  The Canadian Province of British Columbia

  The Canadian Province of Manitoba

  The Canadian Province of New Brunswick

  The Canadian Province of Newfoundland

  The Canadian Province of Nova Scotia

  The Canadian Province of Ontario

 The Canadian Province of Prince Edward Island

  The Canadian Province of Saskatchewan

 The Canadian Territory of Northwest Territories

  The Canadian Territory of Nunavut

  The Canadian Territory of Yukon

Colombia

Cook Islands

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Fiji

France

Germany

Gibraltar

Hong Kong

India

Italy

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malawi

Malaysia

Malta

Nauru

Niue

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Papua New Guinea

Poland

Portugal

Republic of Ireland

Samoa

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovak Republic

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Switzerland

Tanzania (excluding Zanzibar)

Territory of Christmas Island

Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Trinidad and Tobago

Turkey

United Kingdom, including Alderney, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey and Sark

United States of America

Zambia

Zimbabwe

36  Schedule 4

Omit “Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)”.

37  Schedule 4

Insert “Serbia and Montenegro”.

38  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 5, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Omit “Adoption Act 1984”, substitute “Adoption Act 1984”.

39  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 6, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Omit “Children, Youth and Families Act 2005”, substitute “Children, Youth and Families Act 2005”.

40  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 7, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Omit “Education and Training Reform Act 2006”, substitute “Education and Training Reform Act 2006”.

41  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 8, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Omit “Maintenance Act 1965”, substitute “Maintenance Act 1965”.

42  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 9, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Omit “Mental Health Act 1986”, substitute “Mental Health Act 2014”.

43  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 13, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Omit “Mental Health Act 2000”, substitute “Mental Health Act 2016”.

44  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 18, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Omit “Mental Health Act 1996”, substitute “Mental Health Act 2014”.

45  Schedule 5 (after table item 20)

Insert:

46  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 22, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

47  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 26, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

48  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 28, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

49  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 32, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

50  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 34, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

51  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 35, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

52  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 36, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

53  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 37, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

54  Schedule 5 (cell at table item 38, column headed “Prescribed Law”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

55  Schedule 8 (cell at table item 11, column headed “Prescribed law”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

56  Schedule 9 (cell at table item 1, column headed “Prescribed agency”)

Omit “Community Services”, substitute “Family and Community Services”.

57  Schedule 9 (cell at table item 3, column headed “Prescribed agency”)

Omit “Human Services (Office for Children)”, substitute “Health and Human Services”.

58  Schedule 9 (cell at table item 4, column headed “Prescribed agency”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

59  Schedule 9 (cell at table item 5, column headed “Prescribed agency”)

Omit “Communities”, substitute “Child Safety, Youth and Women”.

60  Schedule 9 (cell at table item 7, column headed “Prescribed agency”)

Omit “Community Development”, substitute “Communities”.

61  Schedule 9 (cell at table item 9, column headed “Prescribed agency”)

Omit “Families and Communities”, substitute “Child Protection”.

62  Schedule 9 (cell at table item 11, column headed “Prescribed agency”)

Omit “Health and Human Services”, substitute “Communities Tasmania”.

63  Schedule 9 (cell at table item 12, column headed “Prescribed agency”)

Omit “Police and Emergency Management”, substitute “Police, Fire and Emergency Management”.

64  Schedule 9 (cell at table item 13, column headed “Prescribed agency”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

65  Schedule 9 (cell at table item 15, column headed “Prescribed agency”)

Repeal the cell, substitute: