Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

FAMILY LAW (BILATERAL ARRANGEMENTS-INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION) REGULATIONS 1998 1998 No. 248 - REG 8

8. (1) A provision of these Regulations does not apply to a State in which
there is in force a law (an overseas jurisdiction adoption law) having the
same effect as, or comparable effect to, that which the provision would,
except for this regulation, have for the adoption.

(2) Nothing in these Regulations affects:

   (a)  the jurisdiction of a court of the Commonwealth or a State, or the
        power of an authority, under an overseas jurisdiction adoption law, to
        entertain proceedings, make an order or take any other action in
        relation to an overseas jurisdiction adoption; or

   (b)  any such order or action; or

   (c)  the operation, within a State, of an overseas jurisdiction adoption
        law of the State.