Family Courts Act 2024
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Amendment of Act of 2018 | ||
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90. The Act of 2018 is amended— | ||
(a) in section 2(1), in the definition of “court” by the substitution of “Family District Court or the Family Circuit Court” for “District Court or the Circuit Court”, | ||
(b) in section 6— | ||
(i) in subsection (4), by the substitution of “Family District Court or by the Family Circuit Court on appeal from the Family District Court” for “District Court or by the Circuit Court on appeal from the District Court”, | ||
(ii) in subsection (5), by the substitution of “Family District Court, or by the Family Circuit Court on appeal from the Family District Court” for “District Court, or by the Circuit Court on appeal from the District Court”, and | ||
(iii) in subsection (6), by the substitution of “Family District Court, or by the Family Circuit Court on appeal from the Family District Court” for “District Court, or by the Circuit Court on appeal from the District Court”, | ||
(c) in section 7— | ||
(i) in subsection (8), by the substitution of “Family District Court, or by the Family Circuit Court on appeal from the Family District Court” for “District Court, or by the Circuit Court on appeal from the District Court”, | ||
(ii) in subsection (9), by the substitution of “Family District Court, or by the Family Circuit Court on appeal from the Family District Court” for “District Court, or by the Circuit Court on appeal from the District Court”, and | ||
(iii) in subsection (10), by the substitution of “Family District Court, or by the Family Circuit Court on appeal from the Family District Court” for “District Court, or by the Circuit Court on appeal from the District Court”, | ||
(d) in section 22(1)— | ||
(i) in paragraph (a), by the substitution of “Family Circuit Court, by the judge of the Family Circuit Court within whose Family Circuit Court circuit” for “Circuit Court, by the judge of the Circuit Court within whose circuit”, and | ||
(ii) in paragraph (b), by the substitution of “Family District Court, by a judge of the Family District Court for the time being assigned to the Family District Court district” for “District Court, by a judge of the District Court for the time being assigned to the district court district”, | ||
(e) in section 23— | ||
(i) in subsection (3)— | ||
(I) in paragraph (a), by the substitution of “Proceedings under section 24” for “Civil proceedings under this Act”, and | ||
(II) in paragraph (b), by the substitution of “proceedings under section 24” for “civil proceedings under this Act”, | ||
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(ii) by the deletion of subsections (4) to (6), | ||
(f) in section 24— | ||
(i) in subsection (1)— | ||
(I) by the substitution of “special sitting of the Family District Court or the District Court” for “special sitting of the District Court”, and | ||
(II) in paragraph (b), by the substitution of “Family District Court sitting in the Family District Court district or District Court sitting in the district court district” for “District Court sitting in the district court district”, | ||
(ii) in subsection (3)— | ||
(I) by the substitution of “judge of the Family District Court” for “judge of the District Court” and | ||
(II) by the substitution of “special sittings of the Family District Court in the Family District Court district or of the District Court in the district court district” for “special sittings of the District Court in the district court district”, | ||
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(iii) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (4): | ||
“(4) In this section, ‘special sitting’ means a sitting— | ||
(a) of the District Court at a place and time not standing appointed for the time being under section 26 of the Courts of Justice Act 1953 or section 40 or 42 of the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961 for the transaction of the business of the District Court, or | ||
(b) of the Family District Court at a place and time not standing appointed for the time being under section 26B (inserted by section 40 of the Family Courts Act 2024) of the Courts of Justice Act 1953 to sit to hear and determine family law proceedings.”, | ||
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(g) in section 25— | ||
(i) in subsection (3), by the substitution of “Family Circuit Court circuit or Family District Court district” for “circuit court or district court district” in both places where it occurs, and | ||
(ii) in subsection (4)— | ||
(I) in paragraph (a), by the substitution of “Family Circuit Court, by the judge of the Family Circuit Court circuit” for “Circuit Court, by the judge of the circuit” and | ||
(II) in paragraph (b), by the substitution of “Family District Court, by the judge of that court for the time being assigned to the Family District Court district” for “District Court, by the judge of that court for the time being assigned to the district court district”. |