Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Domicile Act 1982 No. 1 of 1982 - SECT 3

3. (1) The object of this Act is to abolish the rule of law whereby a married
woman has at all times the domicile of her husband, and to make certain other
reforms to the law relating to domicile, for the purposes of-

   (a)  the laws of the Commonwealth; and

   (b)  the laws of (including the common law in force in) each of the
        Territories to which this Act applies,
and this Act has effect, and shall be construed, accordingly.

(2) For the purposes of the application of this Act in relation to the laws of
the Commonwealth, this Act has effect to the exclusion of the laws of any
State, any Territory or any other country relating to any matters dealt with
by this Act.

(3) For the purposes of the application of this Act in relation to the laws of
a Territory to which this Act applies, this Act has effect to the exclusion of
the laws of any State, any other Territory or any other country relating to
any matters dealt with by this Act.

(4) For the purposes of the application of this Act in relation to a law of
the Commonwealth that extends to an external Territory, this Act shall be
deemed to extend to that Territory.

(5) Where a provision of a law of the Commonwealth refers to domicile in, or
to domicile outside, Australia, the provision shall, for the purposes of the
application of this Act, be taken to refer to domicile in, or to domicile
outside, as the case may be, the area that constitutes Australia, within the
meaning of that provision, considered as a single country.

(6) The Territories to which this Act applies are the Australian Capital
Territory, the Jervis Bay Territory and the external Territories (if any) that
are declared by the regulations to be Territories to which this Act extends.