Domestic Violence Act 1996

Amendment of Family Law Act, 1995.

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21.—The Family Law Act, 1995, is hereby amended-—

(a) in section 2, by the deletion of the definition of “the Act of 1981” and the insertion of the following definition after the definition of “the Act of 1989” in subsection (1):

“‘the Act of 1996’ means the Domestic Violence Act, 1996;”,

(b) in section 6, by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a):

“(a) an order under section 2, 3, 4 or 5 of the Act of 1996,”,

(c) in section 10, by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (d) of subsection (1):

“(d) an order under section 2, 3, 4 or 5 of the Act of 1996,”,

and

(d) in section 47, by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (d) of subsection (6):

“(d) under the Act of 1996,”.