Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00583:clause:8_12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00583
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 8 cl 12
Character Range: 28879–29623

12  At the end of section 103
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 (3) If, in proceedings in the Federal Magistrates Court, being proceedings in which a decree to which subsection 102A(1) applies could be made, a question of law arises which:
 (a) the Federal Magistrate; and
 (b) at least one of the parties;
wish to have determined by a Full Court of the Family Court before the proceedings are further dealt with:
 (c) the Federal Magistrate must state the facts and question in the form of a special case for the opinion of a Full Court; and
 (d) a Full Court must hear and determine the question.

 (4) The Full Court may draw, from the facts and the documents, any inference, whether of fact or of law, that could have been drawn from them by the Federal Magistrate.