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15.14 Exhibits
Part 15.5—Attendance
15.15 Party's attendance
15.16 Attendance by electronic communication
15.17 Foreign evidence by electronic communication
15.18 Attendance by party or witness in prison
15.19 Failure to attend a court event
Part 15.6—Additional matters
15.20 Notes, examples etc.
15.21 Forms
15.22 Sittings
15.23 Prohibition on recording
15.24 Publishing lists of proceedings
15.25 Venue for proceedings
Schedule 1—Pre‑action procedures
Part 1—Financial proceedings
1 General
2 Compliance
3 Pre‑action procedures
4 Disclosure and exchange of correspondence
5 Expert witnesses
6 Lawyers' obligations
Part 2—Parenting proceedings
1 General
2 Compliance
3 Pre‑action procedures
4 Disclosure and exchange of correspondence
5 Expert witnesses
6 Lawyers' obligations
Schedule 2—Conduct money and witness fees
Part 1—Conduct money
Part 2—Witness fees
Schedule 3—Scale of costs in family law and child support matters
Part 1A—Application of this Schedule
1 Application of this Schedule
Part 1—Costs allowable for lawyer's work done and services performed
Part 2—Costs allowable for counsel's work done and services performed
Part 3—Basic composite amount for undefended divorce
Part 4—Basic composite amount for request for Enforcement Warrant or Third Party Debt Notice
Schedule 4—Delegated powers
1 Definitions
2 Delegations to Senior Judicial Registrars and Judicial Registrars
Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history

Chapter 1—Purpose and case management

Part 1.1—Preliminary

1.01  Name
  These Rules are the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Family Law) Rules 2021.

1.02  Commencement
 (1) Each provision of these Rules 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
1.  The whole of these Rules  1 September 2021.  1 September 2021

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of these Rules as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of these Rules.
 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of these Rules. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of these Rules.
Note 1: The Family Law Rules 2004 (the old Rules), as in force under the Family Law Act immediately before the commencement of these Rules (the new Rules), are repealed (see the Family Law Repeal Rules 2021). The new Rules apply to a proceeding that was commenced in accordance with the old Rules and was not determined before the repeal of those Rules.
Note 2: The Federal Circuit Court Rules 2001, as in force under the Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999 immediately before the commencement of these