AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Family Provision (Amendment) Ordinance 1989
No. 18 of 1989
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910. 
Dated 13 March 1989.
	BILL HAYDEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
CLYDE HOLDING
Minister of State for the Arts 
and Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Family Provision Ordinance 1969
Short title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Family Provision (Amendment) Ordinance 1989.1
Commencement
2.  This Ordinance commences on such date as is fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

Principal Ordinance
3.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Family Provision Ordinance 1969.2
Persons entitled to apply
4.  Section 7 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting subsections (5) and (6).
Saving
5.  Notwithstanding the amendment effected by section 4, the Principal Ordinance as in force immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance applies in relation to applications under subsection 7 (1) of the Principal Ordinance in respect of the estates of people who died before that commencement.

NOTES
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 March 1989.
2.	No. 15, 1969 as amended by No. 46, 1978; No. 38, 1981; No. 9, 1985.