Family Court (Orders of Registrars) Act 1997 (WA)

Western Australia Family Court (Orders of Registrars) Act 1997 Western Australia Family Court (Orders of Registrars) Act 1997 Contents 1. Short title 1 2. Commencement 1 3. Interpretation 1 4. Rights and liabilities declared in certain cases 2 5. Effect of declared rights and liabilities 2 6. Effect of things done under rights and liabilities declared under this Act or under a corresponding law 3 7. Proceedings as for contempt 3 8. Section 4 regarded as having ceased to have effect in certain cases 4 9. Powers of courts in relation to declared rights and liabilities 4 10. Evidentiary 5 11. Act does not apply to certain orders 5 Notes Compilation table 6 Defined terms Western Australia Family Court (Orders of Registrars) Act 1997 An Act relating to certain ineffective orders of Registrars under the Family Court Act 1975 2 and to make consequential amendments to another Act.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Family Court (Orders of Registrars) Act 1997 1.

2. Commencement (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent 1. (2) Section 12 comes into operation — (a) on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent; or (b) on the day on which the Restraining Orders Act 1997 comes into operation 1, whichever is the later.

3. Interpretation (1) In this Act — corresponding law means a law in force in the Commonwealth that is declared by order of the Attorney General to be a corresponding law for the purposes of this Act; court means a court having jurisdiction under the Family Court Act 1975 2; liability includes a duty or obligation; proceedings has the meaning it had in the Family Court Act 1975 2 as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act and includes an initiating application; Registrar has the meaning it had in the Family Court Act 1975 2 as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act; right includes an interest or status. (2) A reference in this Act to an ineffective order is a reference to an order that a Registrar has purported to make, before the commencement of this Act — (a) in the exercise or purported exercise of a delegated judicial power; and (b) by way of a non­‑reviewable judicial determination, and, where there has been a purported variation, revocation, revival or suspension of such an order, includes a reference to the order in the form in which, and to the extent to which, it purports or purported to have effect from time to time.