Maintenance Regulations 1967 (Qld)

Maintenance Regulations 1967

Part I Preliminary

1 Short title These Regulations may be cited as the Maintenance Regulations 1967.

2 Commencement (1) Subject to subregulation (2) of this Regulation, these Regulations shall come into operation on the date of commencement of the Act. (2) Where the Governor in Council, pursuant to subsection (2) of section 2 of the Act, by Proclamation fixes a date or dates for the commencement of Division 2 of Part III of the Act, or for the commencement of the several provisions of Part IV of the Act, later than the date fixed by the Proclamation under subsection (1) of section 2 of the Act for the commencement of the Act, then, in subregulation (1) of this Regulation, the term "date of commencement of the Act" means, in relation to any Regulations made for the purposes of Division 2 of Part III of the Act, or of any of the several provisions of Part IV of the Act, the date of the commencement of that Division or of that provision, so fixed.

3 Parts These Regulations are divided into Parts and a Schedule as follows:— PART I—PRELIMINARY (Regulations 1–6); PART II—LOCAL MAINTENANCE (Regulations 7–32); PART III—INTERSTATE MAINTENANCE (Regulations 33–50); PART IV—OVERSEAS MAINTENANCE (Regulations 51–75); PART V—GENERAL (Regulations 76–78); THE SCHEDULE.

4 Repeals and Savings (1) All Rules of Court made under "The Maintenance Acts, 1949 to 1954," are hereby repealed. (2) All Regulations made under "The Interstate Destitute Persons Relief Acts, 1914 to 1944," are hereby repealed as from the date Part III of these Regulations comes into operation. (3) All Regulations and Rules of Court made under "The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Acts, 1921 to 1959," are, except as hereinafter provided, hereby repealed as from the date Part IV of these Regulations comes into operation: Provided that any such Regulations or Rules in force immediately prior to the date Part IV of these Regulations comes into operation shall continue and be of full force and effect for the purposes of subsections (4) and (5) of section five of the Act in relation to orders that were, prior to the commencement of Division 3 of Part IV of the Act, registered in the Supreme Court of Queensland under "The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Acts, 1921 to 1959," and were, immediately prior to the commencement of that Division, enforceable in that court or in a Magistrates Court of Queensland.