C10

Prospective affecting provision: section inserted by Family Courts Act 2024 (48/2024), s. 10, not commenced as of date of revision.

F21[8A.— (1) On the coming into operation of section 10 of the Act of 2024, the Family High Court may exercise, in addition to the original and inherent jurisdiction of the High Court, the exclusive jurisdiction in family law proceedings for which jurisdiction of the High Court was provided in the following enactments before the coming into operation of that section:

(a) the Adoption Act 2010;

(b) the Child Abduction and Enforcement of Custody Orders Act 1991;

(c) the European Communities (Decisions in Matrimonial Matters and in Matters of Parental Responsibility and International Child Abduction) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 400 of 2022);

(d) Part IVA of the Child Care Act 1991.

(2) The jurisdiction of the Family High Court shall include the hearing of—

(a) appeals of decisions of the Family Circuit Court (other than decisions of that Court in respect of appeals from the Family District Court), and

(b) cases stated from the Family District Court and the Family Circuit Court.]