Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00417:front:0:p21
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00417
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 53536–56304

application seeks a parenting order or a child related injunction under Part VII of the Family Law Act (other than an application for child maintenance).
party includes the following:
 (a) an applicant in a proceeding;
 (b) an appellant in an appeal;
 (c) a respondent to an application or appeal;
 (d) an intervener in a proceeding.
party to a financial proceeding includes a payee and any other respondent to an enforcement application.
payee means a person who is entitled to take action against a payer to enforce an obligation to pay money, created by an assessment, order or agreement, with which the payer has not complied.
Note: The Child Support Registrar is a payee in relation to a registered child support liability.
payer means a person who has an obligation to pay money to, or do an act to financially assist, a payee under an assessment, order or agreement.
penalty unit has the meaning given by section 4AA of the Crimes Act 1914.
permission means the leave or consent of the court.
person includes a corporation, authority or party.
personal service means service in accordance with Division 2.6.2.
person subpoenaed means a person required by a subpoena to produce a document or give evidence.
police record, for a person, means records relating to the person kept by police, including statements, police notes and records of interview.
post‑separation parenting program has the meaning given by subsection 4(1) of the Family Law Act.
pre‑action procedures means the set of principles and procedures, the text of which is set out in Schedule 1, with which the parties must comply before starting a proceeding.
prescribed child welfare authority has the meaning given by subsection 4(1) of the Family Law Act.
prescribed property, for a person, means the following:
 (a) clothes, bed, bedding, kitchen furniture (not including an automatic dishwasher or microwave) and washing machine;
 (b) ordinary tools of trade, plant and equipment, professional instruments and reference books, the combined value of which is not more than $5,000.
primary order has the meaning given by subsection 4(1) of the Family Law Act.
property has the meaning given by subsection 4(1) of the Family Law Act.
Examples: Real property; personal property; superannuation.
property proceeding means a proceeding in which orders (other than consent orders) are sought relating to:
 (a) the property of the parties to a marriage, or of a de facto relationship after the breakdown of the relationship, or of either of them; or
 (b) the vested bankruptcy property in relation to a bankrupt party to a marriage, or of a de facto relationship after the breakdown of the relationship.
protected earnings rate means the actual threshold income amount that would apply to a payer under