Acts Interpretation (Registered Relationships) Regulations 2019
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Acts Interpretation (Registered Relationships) Regulations 2019
I, 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 regulations.
Dated 07 March 2019
Peter Cosgrove
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
Christian Porter
Attorney‑General
Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
5 Registered relationships
Schedule 1—Repeals
Acts Interpretation (Registered Relationships) Regulations 2008
1 Name
This instrument is the Acts Interpretation (Registered Relationships) Regulations 2019.
2 Commencement
(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.
- Commencement information
- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
- Provisions Commencement Date/Details
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- The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered. 13 March 2019
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
(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.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.
4 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
5 Registered relationships
For the purposes of section 2E of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, this section prescribes:
(a) each law of a State or Territory mentioned in column 1 of an item of the following table; and
(b) the kind of relationship described in column 2 of that item by reference to that law.
- Registered relationships
- Item Column 1Law Column 2Kind of relationship
- 1 Relationships Register Act 2010 (NSW) A relationship that may be registered in accordance with Part 2 of that Act
- 2 Relationships Act 2008 (Vic.) A registrable domestic relationship that may be registered in accordance with Part 2.2 of that Act
- 3 Civil Partnerships Act 2011 (Qld) A relationship that may be entered into in accordance with sections 4 and 5 of that Act
- 4 Relationships Register Act 2016 (SA) A relationship that may be registered in accordance with Part 2 of that Act
- 5 Relationships Act 2003 (Tas.) A significant relationship in relation to which a deed of relationship may be registered in accordance with Part 2 of that Act
- 6 Domestic Relationships Act 1994 (ACT) A civil partnership that may be entered into in accordance with sections 37C and 37D of that Act
- 7 Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997 (ACT) A civil union that must be registered under section 32A of that Act
Schedule 1—Repeals
Acts Interpretation (Registered Relationships) Regulations 2008
1 The whole of the instrument
Repeal the instrument.