STRANGE OVERSIGHT
NO DIVORCE IN CANBERRA RESULT OF A LEGAL SLIP Owing to an extraordinary legal oversight, divorce is not obtainable by residents in the Australian Federal Capital Territority. Nominally, Canberra has the benefit of the New South Wales divorce laws, but there is no Court to administer them. • The Seat of Government Act, which came into operation in 1910, provided that the law then existing in New South Wales should be the law of the Federal Territory. Later in the same year the jurisdiction of the Supreme 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 Federal Attorney-General is having an ordinance prepared to empower the High Court to deal with divorce suits and unravel some of the Canberra’s matrimonial tangles.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 234, 2 October 1929, Page 6
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147STRANGE OVERSIGHT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 234, 2 October 1929, Page 6
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