STRANGE OVERSIGHT.
NO DIVORCE IN CANBERRA.,
RESULT OF LEGAL SLIP.
Owing to an extraordinary legal oversight, divorce is not obtainable by residents' in tho Australian Federal Capital Territory. Nominally, Canberra has the benefit of the New South Wales divorco laws, but there is no Court to administer them.
Tho Seat of Government Act, which came into oporation in 1910, provided that the, law then existing in New South Wales should bo tho law of tho Federal Territory. Later in the same year the jurisdiction of the Supremo Court of New South Wales in the Territory was abolished, and that of the High Court substituted.
, The High Court, however, has no jurisdiction in divorce, so the divorce law cannot be administered. The Fed oral Attorney-General is having an ordinance prepared to empower the High Court to deal with divorce suits and unravol somo of Canberra's matrimonial tangles.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 11
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