FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 1972 - SECT 218

FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 1972 - SECT 218

218—Cancellation of registration

        (1)         Where—

            (a)         an overseas order is registered or confirmed under this Subdivision; and

            (b)         the Collector receives a request in writing made by an officer of the Court that made the order or some other appropriate authority in the reciprocating country that the order be made no longer enforceable in this State,

the Collector must send the request to the Magistrates Court, which must file the request and, if the order is registered under this Subdivision, cancel the registration of the order.

        (2)         Where such a request has been so filed—

            (a)         the overseas order is unenforceable in this State; and

            (b)         the order remains unenforceable in this State unless and until it is registered, or again registered, in this State; and

            (c)         a warrant or other process under this Act arising out of the order previously issued in this State and not executed ceases to have effect.