Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders
This note is not part of the Order)
The following provisions of the Act were brought into force on the 4th April 1988 by the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/425):
Sections 1, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31;
Section 33 (partially);
Section 34.