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Family Proceedings Amendment Act 1981

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Short Title and commencement

Proceedings where respondent is absent from New Zealand or cannot be found

Appeals and transitional provisions

Family Proceedings Amendment Act 1981

Public Act		1981 No 64
Date of assent		22 October 1981

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Proceedings where respondent is absent from New Zealand or cannot be found
3	Appeals and transitional provisions
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Family Proceedings Act 1980

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Family Proceedings Amendment Act 1981, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Family Proceedings Act 1980 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of October 1981.

2 Proceedings where respondent is absent from New Zealand or cannot be found

Section 157(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “under Part IV of this Act or”.

3 Appeals and transitional provisions

(1)

Section 175(3) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “High Court” in the second place where they appear, and substituting the words “Court of Appeal”.

(2)

Section 192(1)(c) of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “shall”, the words “notwithstanding section 18(2) of the Family Courts Act 1980, but”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

Family Proceedings Amendment Act 1981