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FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 - SECT 117A Reparation for certain losses and expenses relating to children

FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 - SECT 117A

Reparation for certain losses and expenses relating to children

  (1)   Where:

  (a)   a court has found, for the purposes of Division   13A of Part   VII, that a person has, by taking a child away from another person or by refusing or failing to deliver a child to another person, contravened a parenting order to the extent to which the order provides that:

  (i)   a child is to live with a person; or

  (ii)   a child is to spend time with a person; or

  (iii)   a child is to communicate with a person;

  (b)   a person has been convicted of an offence against section   65Y, 65YA, 65Z or 65ZAA in respect of a child;

  (c)   a court has found, for the purposes of Division   13A of Part   VII, that a person has, by taking a child away from another person or by refusing or failing to deliver a child to another person, contravened an injunction granted, or an order made, under section   114; or

  (d)   a person has been found to be in contempt of a court exercising jurisdiction under this Act by reason of having taken a child away from another person or having refused or failed to deliver a child to another person;

a court having jurisdiction under this Act may, subject to subsection   (2):

  (e)   on the application of the Commonwealth--order the person to make reparation to the Commonwealth or to a Commonwealth instrumentality, by way of money payment or otherwise, in respect of any loss suffered, or any expense incurred, by the Commonwealth or the Commonwealth instrumentality, as the case may be, in recovering the child and returning the child to a person; or

  (f)   on the application of any other person--order the first - mentioned person to make reparation to that other person, by way of money payment or otherwise, in respect of any loss suffered, or expense incurred, by that other person in recovering the child and, if applicable, returning the child to a person.

  (2)   Nothing in subsection   (1) empowers a court to order a person to make reparation to the Commonwealth, to a Commonwealth instrumentality or to another person in respect of any loss suffered, or any expense incurred, where a court has, under section   21B of the Crimes Act 1914 , ordered the first - mentioned person to make reparation to the Commonwealth, to the Commonwealth instrumentality or to that other person, as the case may be, in respect of the same loss suffered or expense incurred.

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