Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00859:section:4a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00859
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4A
Character Range: 79082–81063

4A  Third party proceedings to set aside financial agreement
 (1) For the purposes of paragraph (eab) of the definition of matrimonial cause in subsection 4(1), third party proceedings means proceedings between:
 (a) any combination of:
 (i) the parties to a financial agreement; and
 (ii) the legal personal representatives of any of those parties who have died;
  (including a combination consisting solely of parties or consisting solely of representatives); and
 (b) any of the following:
 (i) a creditor;
 (ii) if a creditor is an individual who has died—the legal personal representative of the creditor;
 (iii) a government body acting in the interests of a creditor;
being proceedings for the setting aside of the financial agreement on the ground specified in paragraph 90K(1)(aa).
 (1A) For the purposes of paragraph (eab) of the definition of matrimonial cause in subsection 4(1), third party proceedings also means proceedings between:
 (a) any combination of:
 (i) the parties to a financial agreement; and
 (ii) the legal personal representatives of any of those parties who have died;
  (including a combination consisting solely of parties or consisting solely of representatives); and
 (b) either:
 (i) another person who is a party to a de facto relationship with one of the spouse parties to the financial agreement; or
 (ii) the legal personal representative of that other person if that person has died;
being proceedings for the setting aside of the financial agreement on the ground specified in paragraph 90K(1)(ab).
 (2) In this section:
creditor means:
 (a) a creditor of a party to the financial agreement; or
 (b) a person who, at the commencement of the proceedings, could reasonably have been foreseen by the court as being reasonably likely to become a creditor of a party to the financial agreement.
government body means:
 (a) the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or
 (b) an official or authority of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.