{"id":"F2017L01096","name":"Child Support Legislation (Exclusion of Courts of Summary Jurisdiction) Proclamation 2017","slug":"child-support-legislation-exclusion-of-courts-of-summary-jurisdiction-proclamation-2017","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":439310,"registerId":"F2017L01096-fast-fetch-1775955385441","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Child Support Legislation (Exclusion of Courts of Summary Jurisdiction) Proclamation 2017","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nChild Support Legislation (Exclusion of Courts of Summary Jurisdiction) Proclamation 2017\n\nI, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Proclamation.\n\nSigned and Sealed with the\n\nGreat Seal of Australia on\n\n 24 August 2017\n\nPeter Cosgrove\n\nGovernor‑General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command\n\nChristian Porter\n\nMinister for Social Services\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\n4 Schedules\n\n5 Jurisdictional restriction\n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\nSummary Courts Jurisdiction — Child Support (Assessment) Proclamation 2007\n\nSummary Courts Jurisdiction — Child Support (Registration and Collection) Proclamation 2007\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Child Support Legislation (Exclusion of Courts of Summary Jurisdiction) Proclamation 2017.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument 1 October 2017. 1 October 2017\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under the following:\n\n (a) subsection 99(3) of the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989;\n\n (b) subsection 104(3) of the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988.\n\n4  Schedules\n\n  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.\n\n5  Jurisdictional restriction\n\n  On and after 1 October 2017, proceedings in relation to matters arising under the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 or the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 may not be instituted in, or transferred to, a court of summary jurisdiction in New South Wales mentioned in an item of the following table.\n\n \n\n- Courts of summary jurisdiction\n- Item Name of court Location of court\n- 1 Central Local Court 98 Liverpool Street, Sydney\n- 2 Downing Centre Local Court The following locations:(a) Levels 4 and 5, Downing Centre, 143‑147 Liverpool Street, Sydney;(b) Level 4, John Maddison Tower, 86 Goulburn Street, Sydney\n- 3 Local Court Newtown 222 Australia Street, Newtown\n- 4 Local Court North Sydney 94 Pacific Highway, North Sydney\n\n\n \n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\n \n\nSummary Courts Jurisdiction — Child Support (Assessment) Proclamation 2007\n\n1  The whole of the Proclamation\n\nRepeal the Proclamation.\n\nSummary Courts Jurisdiction — Child Support (Registration and Collection) Proclamation 2007\n\n2  The whole of the Proclamation\n\nRepeal the Proclamation.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation performs exactly the limited function suggested by its title: excluding specific courts of summary jurisdiction from hearing child support matters. It does not expand beyond this narrow jurisdictional adjustment."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument (5 sections plus Schedule)","Only 4 defined court locations in a simple table format","Straightforward repeal of two earlier instruments without transitional provisions","Single operative provision (section 5) with clear prohibition","No nested exceptions or conditional logic beyond the date trigger"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation removes the power of four specified NSW Local Courts to hear matters under the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 and the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988, repealing the 2007 proclamations that had granted that authority.\n\nIt affects NSW residents who previously brought child support disputes in those local courts by directing such matters to other courts (eg the Federal Circuit and Family Court), centralising and simplifying jurisdiction for complex federal child support law."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This instrument repeals the two 2007 proclamations (Schedule 1) and imposes a new, specified exclusion of four named NSW summary courts from child support proceedings from 1 October 2017 (s5). The proclamation therefore establishes a changed set of courts excluded from jurisdiction; determining whether the overall geographic or institutional scope is broader or narrower than the 2007 instruments requires a side-by-side comparison with those repealed proclamations, but the instrument itself replaces the prior instruments and fixes the new scope."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow subject-matter (child support) but operates across two Acts (Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 and Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988) (authority given in s3).","Prescriptive, fixed list of four local courts in New South Wales to be excluded — straightforward but precise jurisdictional effect (s5).","Repeals earlier instruments entirely (Schedule 1), so determining net change requires comparing those 2007 proclamations with this list.","Single, unambiguous commencement date (1 October 2017) reduces temporal complexity (s2).","Made under specific statutory powers rather than creating new procedures — low discretion in the instrument itself (s3 and s4).","Practical compliance burden for litigants: altered venue/location for instituting or transferring proceedings (implicit effect of s5), with no alternative venues specified in the instrument.","Administrative clarity (list format) but potential for implementation detail to be handled elsewhere (court registry practice or procedural rules)."],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation stops certain New South Wales local (summary) courts from hearing or receiving transferred child support cases under the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 and the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988, effective 1 October 2017. It lists four specific NSW local courts excluded and repeals two earlier 2007 proclamations. People who would have started or moved child support proceedings in those courts must use other courts or forums instead."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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