Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FAMILY LAW AMENDMENT ACT 1979 No. 23 of 1979 - SECT 19

19. (1) Section 106 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end
thereof the following sub-section:

''(2) Without limiting the generality of sub-section (1), regulations made by
virtue of that sub-section may provide for-

   (a)  the attachment of moneys payable by the Commonwealth, a State, a
        Territory or the Administration of a Territory, or by an authority of
        the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory, other than moneys as
        to which it is provided by any law of the Commonwealth, of a State or
        of a Territory that they are not liable to attachment; and

   (b)  matters of priority as between the execution of orders made under the
        regulations, or under the repealed Act, for the attachment of such
        moneys and the execution of orders made in accordance with the
        Maintenance Orders  (Commonwealth Officers) Act 1966 .''.

(2) Regulations purporting to be in force under the Principal Act immediately
before the commencement of this section are, and shall be deemed to have been,
at all times since the making of the regulations, as valid and effectual as if
the amendment made by this section had come into operation before the making
of the regulations.