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of this section, as they would have, or would have had, if the power had been exercised by a Judge.
(3) The Family Law Act 1975 and the regulations and Rules of Court in force under that Act have effect as if—
    (a) a document embodying a decree, judgment, order or direction that a Registrar purported to make or give under section 37a of that Act before the commencement of this section were a document embodying a decree, judgment, order or direction, as the case may be, made or given by a Judge; and
    (b) a copy of a document embodying such a purported decree, judgment, order or direction were a copy of a document embodying a decree, judgment, order or direction, as the case may be, made or given by a Judge.
(4) In this section—
    "Judge" has the same meaning as in Part IV of the Family Law Act 1975;
    "Registrar" means the Principal Registrar, a Registrar or a Deputy Registrar of the Family Court of Australia.

Operation of Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984
11. (1) For the purposes of Part III of the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 as in force at any time before the commencement of the amendments of that Part made by this Act, where—
    (a) a person was, immediately before the dissolution of the House of Representatives that occurred after the commencement of that Part and before the commencement of those amendments, a Member of the House of Representatives;
    (b) a determination by the Prime Minister under section 12 of that Act in respect of that person was in force in respect of the period from that dissolution until the commencement of those amendments; and
    (c) that person was elected as a Member of that House at the first general election of Members of that House that followed that dissolution,
that person shall be deemed to have continued to be a Member of that House from that dissolution until that person became a member of that House by election at that general election.
(2) For the purposes of Part IV of the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 as in force at any time before the commencement of the amendments of that Part made by this Act, where—
    (a) a person was, on the day (in this sub-section referred to as the "relevant day") immediately before the polling day for the general election of Members of the House of Representatives that was held after the commencement of that Part and before the commencement of those amendments, a Senator for a Territory; and
    (b) that person was elected as a Senator at an election held at the same time as that general