Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FAMILY COURT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (ORDERS OF REGISTRARS) ACT 1997 No. 148 of 1997 - SECT 3

In this Act:
corresponding Western Australian Act means the Family Court (Orders of
Registrars) Act 1997 of Western Australia.
federal family jurisdiction means jurisdiction under:

   (a)  the Family Law Act 1975; or

   (b)  the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988; or

   (c)  the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989.
ineffective order has the meaning given by section 4.
liability includes a duty or obligation.
parenting plan means a parenting plan under the Family Law Act  1975 .
proceedings includes an initiating application.
proceedings for the order means:

   (a)  in relation to an ineffective order of the kind referred to in
        subsection 4(2)Šthe proceedings in or in relation to which the order
        was purportedly made; and

   (b)  in relation to provisions of a parenting plan that are an ineffective
        order of the kind referred to in subsection 4(3)Šthe proceedings that
        would have been constituted by the application to register the
        parenting plan if it had instead been an application to the Family
        Court of Western Australia for an order of the relevant kind under the
        Family Law Act 1975 and the parties to the plan had been parties to
        that application.
Registrar has the meaning it had in the Family Court Act 1975 of Western
Australia as in force immediately before the commencement of the corresponding
Western Australian Act.
registration decision, in relation to an ineffective order of the kind
referred to in subsection 4(3), means the Registrar's decision to register the
parenting plan as mentioned in that subsection.
right includes an interest or status.