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Reprint as at 18 May 2009

Family Courts Act 1980

Public Act	1980 No 161
Date of assent	21 January 1981

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.

The Family Courts Act 1980 is administered in the Ministry of Justice.

Contents

1 Short Title and commencement

2 Interpretation

3 Act to bind the Crown

4 Establishment of Family Courts

5 Appointment of Family Court Judges

6 Principal Family Court Judge

7 Acting Family Court Judges

8 Counselling supervisors, counsellors, and other officers

9 Stationing of Judges and sittings of Courts

10 Avoidance of unnecessary formality

11 Jurisdiction of Family Courts

11A Attendance at hearings

11B Publication of reports of proceedings

11C Meaning of identifying information

11D Meaning of vulnerable person

12 Proceedings to be brought and dealt with under Family Courts Rules

13 Court may state case for High Court

14 Transfer of proceedings to High Court

15 District Courts may exercise certain jurisdiction

16 Application of District Courts Act 1947

16A Family Courts Rules

16B Regulations

16C Reviews of decisions of Registrars concerning fees

17 Certain enactments amended

18 Transitional and saving provisions

Schedule
Enactments amended

An Act to establish Family Courts as divisions of District Courts, and to provide for the constitution, jurisdiction, powers, and procedures of Family Courts

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