New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH POWERS (DE FACTO RELATIONSHIPS) ACT 2003 - SECT 1

1 Name of Act and purpose

(1) This Act is the Commonwealth Powers (De Facto Relationships) Act 2003 .

(2) The purpose of this Act is to refer certain financial matters arising out of the breakdown of de facto relationships to the Parliament of the Commonwealth for the purposes of section 51 (xxxvii) of the Constitution of the Commonwealth .