Western Australian Current Acts

CHILD SUPPORT (COMMONWEALTH POWERS) ACT 2019

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Preamble

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title
            
   2.      Commencement
            
   3.      Terms used

   PART 2 -- Adoption and referral  

   4.      Adoption of the Commonwealth Child Support laws as in force immediately before commencement day
            
   5.      Referral of maintenance of exnuptial children
            
   6.      Termination of adoption and reference

   PART 3 -- Family Court Act 1997 amended  

   7.      Act amended
            
   8.      Section 5 amended

   PART 4 -- Repeal  

   9.      Child Support (Adoption of Laws) Act 1990 repealed
           Defined terms
           
An Act — 
•         to adopt,
           for the purposes of section 51(xxxvii) of the Constitution of the
           Commonwealth, certain laws of the Commonwealth insofar as those laws relate to
           the maintenance of exnuptial children; and
•         to refer the matter
           of the maintenance of exnuptial children to the Parliament of the Commonwealth
           for the purposes of section 51(xxxvii) of the Constitution of the
           Commonwealth to the extent that the Commonwealth’s legislative power does
           not otherwise extend to Western Australia; and 
•         to amend the
           Family Court Act 1997 and repeal the Child Support (Adoption of
           Laws) Act 1990; and
•         for related
           purposes.

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