Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Family Law Amendment Act 1983 No. 72 of 1983 - SECT 19

19. (1) Section 40 of the Principal Act is amended-

         (a)  by omitting from sub-section (3) ''proceedings under this Act''
and substituting ''matrimonial causes, and other proceedings, referred to in
sub-section 39 (5)'';

         (b)  by inserting in sub-section (3) ''a specified class or'' before
''specified classes''; and

   (c)  by inserting after sub-section (4) the following sub-section:

''(4A) The Governor-General may, by Proclamation, declare that a Proclamation
made under sub-section (3) is revoked on and from a specified date and, on and
after the specified date, this Act (including sub-section (3)) has effect as
if the revoked Proclamation had not been made, but without prejudice to the
effect of the revoked Proclamation in respect of the jurisdiction of courts
before the specified date.''.

(2) Nothing in the amendments made by sub-section (1) affects the operation of
a Proclamation made, before the commencement of this section, under
sub-section 40 (3) of the Family Law Act 1975.