Western Australian Current Acts

FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 177

177 .         Application of Act and rules when exercising section 176 power — FLA s. 68S

        (1)         The following provisions do not apply to a court exercising the power under section 176 —

            (a)         section 88;

            (b)         section 91(2);

            (c)         section 66G;

            (d)         section 43;

            (e)         any provisions (for example, section 66A) that would otherwise make the best interests of the child the paramount consideration;

            (f)         any provisions of this Act or the rules specified in the regulations.

        (2)         If a court is exercising the power under section 176 in proceedings to make an interim family violence order or an interim variation of a family violence order —

            (a)         the court has a discretion about whether to apply section 66C(3)(a); and

            (b)         any provisions of this Act or the rules specified in the regulations do not apply.

        (3)         A court exercising the power under section 176 may, as it thinks appropriate, dispense with any otherwise applicable rules.

        [Section 177 inserted: No. 35 of 2006 s. 142(1).]