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parentage, death or marriage
   55. Persons not to be imprisoned for failure to comply with certain orders
   56. Inter-State enforcement of child bearing expenses orders
   57. Overseas enforcement of maintenance orders etc.
   58. Injunctions
   59. Powers of arrest
   60. Operation of State and Territory laws
   61. Offers of settlement
   62. Regulations
   63. Formal amendments

PART III—TRANSITIONAL AND APPLICATION PROVISIONS

       64. Application of relief from time limits applying in relation to institution of certain proceedings
       65. Transitional provision in relation to section 46 of Family Law Act
       66. Application of certain provisions in relation to children born before commencement of Act
       67. Application of specification requirements in orders and agreements
       68. Savings provisions in relation to injunctions

SCHEDULE
FORMAL AMENDMENTS

Family Law Amendment Act 1987

No. 181 of 1987

An Act to amend the Family Law Act 1975, and for related purposes

[Assented to 26 December 1987]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Family Law Amendment Act 1987.

Commencement
2. This Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

Principal Act
3. In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Family Law Act 19751.

PART II—AMENDMENTS OF THE FAMILY LAW ACT 1975

Title
4. The title to the Principal Act is amended by inserting "and otherwise" after "thereto".

Interpretation
5. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended:
     (a) by omitting "subsection" from the definition of "financial or custodial proceedings" in subsection (1) and substituting "subsection or under Part VII";
     (b) by omitting paragraphs (cb) to (ch) (inclusive) of the definition of "matrimonial cause" in subsection (1);
     (c) by omitting from paragraph (eb) of the definition of "matrimonial cause" in subsection (1) "(cb), (cc), (cd) or (ce)";
     (d) by omitting from subsection (1) the definitions of "adopted" and "guardian";
     (e) by inserting in subsection (1) the following definitions in their respective appropriate alphabetical positions (determined on a letter-by-letter basis):
          " 'child of a marriage' includes a child who is, under subsection 60a (1) or (2), a child of a marriage, but does not include a child who has, under subsection 60a (3), ceased to be a child of a marriage;
          'income tested pension, allowance or benefit' means a pension, allowance or benefit prescribed, or included in a class of pensions, allowances or benefits prescribed, for the purposes of this definition;
          'police officer' means:
              (a) a member or special member of the Australian Federal Police; or
              (b) a member, however described, of the police force of a State or Territory;
          'this Act' includes the regulations and Rules of Court;"; and
     (f)