52Application in relation to Western Australian exnuptial children

52  Application in relation to Western Australian exnuptial children

(1) This item applies if, immediately after the commencement of this item, the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 and the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988, as amended by this Act, do not extend to Western Australia in relation to the maintenance of exnuptial children because:

 (a) the Parliament of Western Australia has not referred to the Parliament of the Commonwealth the matter of the maintenance of exnuptial children or matters that include that matter; and

 (b) Western Australia has not adopted those Acts as amended by this Act.

(2) Item 51 of this Schedule applies in Western Australia, after Western Australia adopts those Acts as amended by this Act, in relation to the maintenance of exnuptial children:

 (a) as if references in that item to the commencement of that item were references to the adoption of those Acts by Western Australia as amended by this Act; and

 (b) as if the reference in paragraph (1)(b) of that item to 30 June 2010 were a reference to the day before the adoption of those Acts by Western Australia as amended by this Act.