Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATUTE LAW (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (No. 2) 1985No. 193, 1985 - SECT 10

10. <(1) This section does not have effect in a case in which, after the
 purported making or giving of a decree, judgment, order or direction by a
Registrar, the Family Court of Australia or a Judge has, whether upon an
appeal or otherwise, made or given a decree, judgment, order or direction
setting aside, or in substitution for, the purported decree, judgment, order
or direction.

(2) Where, on or after 2 January 1985 and before the commencement of this
section, a Registrar purported, under section 37A of the Family Law Act 1975,
to exercise a power of the Family Court of Australia -

   (a)  the rights, liabilities, obligations and status of all persons in
        relation to whom the Registrar purported to exercise the power, or who
        were otherwise affected by the purported exercise of the power, are,
        by force of this section, deemed to be, and always to have been, the
        same as if the power had been exercised by a Judge; and

   (b)  all proceedings, matters, decrees, judgments, orders, directions, acts
        and things taken, made or done, or purporting to have been taken, made
        or done, under the Family Law Act 1975 in relation to a person in
        relation to whom the Registrar purported to exercise the power, or who
        was otherwise affected by the purported exercise of the power, are, by
        force of this section, declared to have the same effect after the
        commencement of this section, and to have had the same effect before
        the commencement of this section, as they would have, or would have
        had, if the power had been exercised by a Judge.

(3) The Family Law Act 1975 and the regulations and Rules of Court in force
under that Act have effect as if -

   (a)  a document embodying a decree, judgment, order or direction that a
        Registrar purported to make or give under section 37A of that Act
        before the commencement of this section were a document embodying a
        decree, judgment, order or direction, as the case may be, made or
        given by a Judge; and

   (b)  a copy of a document embodying such a purported decree, judgment,
        order or direction were a copy of a document embodying a decree,
        judgment, order or direction, as the case may be, made or given by a
        Judge.

(4) In this section -

"Judge" has the same meaning as in Part IV of the Family Law Act 
1975 ;

"Registrar" means the Principal Registrar, a Registrar or a Deputy
Registrar of the Family Court of Australia.