Last Updated: 1 December 2016

[FAM 11,615] Application of these Rules1.02 

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(1) These Rules apply to all proceedings in the Family Division of the High Court or the Family Division of the Magistrates Court under the Act, the Regulations or these Rules, including proceedings to which sections 4(2), (3), (4) and (5) of the Act apply.
(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, a provision of these Rules applies in the same manner in relation to both the Family Division of the High Court and the Family Division of the Magistrates Court.
(3) Where a practice or procedure is not provided for in these Rules, the standard rules of the court in which the proceedings are being conducted apply.