Western Australian Current Acts

FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 3

3 .         Contents of this Act

                This Act —

            (a)         provides for the Family Court of Western Australia and for certain other State courts to exercise the federal jurisdiction invested in them by or under the Family Law Act 1975 of the Commonwealth; and

            (b)         provides for the Family Court of Western Australia and for certain other State courts to exercise the non-federal jurisdictions conferred on them by or under this Act; and

            (c)         provides for the Family Court of Western Australia to exercise jurisdiction under any other written law, or for the purposes of any other Commonwealth law.