Commonwealth Numbered Acts

MARRIAGE AMENDMENT ACT 1976 No. 209, 1976 - SECT 19

19. Section 92 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by inserting in sub-section (1), after the words ''apply to'', the words
''the Family Court of Australia, a Family Court of a State or'';

   (b)  by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following
        sub-section:-

''(2) The Supreme Courts of the States and any Family Court of a State are
invested with federal jurisdiction and jurisdiction is conferred, to the
extent that the Constitution permits, on the Supreme Courts of the
Territories, to hear and determine applications under this section.'';

   (c)  by omitting from sub-section (3) the words ''the Supreme Court of a
        State'' and substituting the words ''a court of a State''; and

   (d)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:-

''(7) The Governor-General may, by Proclamation, fix a date as the date on and
after which proceedings under this section may not be instituted in, or
transferred to, the Supreme Court of a State or Territory specified in the
Proclamation and that Supreme Court shall not hear and determine any such
proceedings so instituted in, or transferred to, that Court on or after that
date.''.