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Family Law Amendment (De Facto Financial Matters and Other Measures) Act 2008 - Proclamation

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This document is a commencement proclamation—a formal legal instrument that activates specific sections of the Family Law Amendment (De Facto Financial Matters and Other Measures) Act 2008. It does not contain the rules about property settlements for de facto couples itself. Instead, it simply switches on certain technical provisions (items 1–4 of Schedule 1 and item 1 of Schedule 4) so they become law on 1 March 2009. This allows different parts of the Act to start at different times (staged implementation). The Governor-General issues this under authority granted by section 2 of the Act itself.

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Proclamation

Family Law Amendment (De Facto Financial Matters and Other Measures) Act 2008

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under items 2 and 7 of the table in subsection 2 (1) of the Family Law Amendment (De Facto Financial Matters and Other Measures) Act 2008, fix 1 March 2009 as the day on which the following provisions of the Act commence:

(a) items 1 to 4 of Schedule 1;

(b) item 1 of Schedule 4.

Signed and sealed with the Great Seal of Australia on 5 February 2009

QUENTIN BRYCE Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

ROBERT McCLELLAND

Attorney-General

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