AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

MAINTENANCE RECOVERY (RECIPROCITY WITH STATES)
ORDINANCE 1966

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 17 of 1966

	The purpose of the Maintenance Recovery (Reciprocity with States) Ordinance 1966 (A.C.T.) is to amend the Maintenance Recovery (Reciprocity with States) Ordinance 1963 by altering certain definitions and procedures relating to the enforcement in the Australian Capital Territory of maintenance orders made in the States and other Territories.  The alterations are made necessary by certain changes in the procedure for interstate enforcement of maintenance orders that have been recently made, or will shortly be made, in new State or Territory maintenance legislation.

(B. M. SNEDDEN)