Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FAMILY LAW AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 182 of 1989 - SECT 19

19. Section 114AA of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by omitting subsections (1) and (2) and substituting the following
        subsection:

"(1) Where:

   (a)  an injunction is in force under section 114 for the personal
        protection of a person; and

   (b)  a police officer believes, on reasonable grounds, that the person
        against whom the injunction is directed (in this section called the
        'respondent') has, since the injunction was granted, breached the
        injunction by causing, or threatening to cause, bodily harm to the
        person referred to in paragraph (a);
the police officer may arrest the respondent without warrant.";

   (b)  by omitting from subsection (3) "subsection (2)" and substituting
        "subsection (1)";

   (c)  by omitting from subparagraph (3) (a) (i) "authorised the arrest" and
        substituting "granted the injunction";

   (d)  by omitting from subparagraph (3) (a) (ii) "order under subsection (1)
        was made" and substituting "injunction under section 114 was granted";

   (e)  by omitting from paragraph (3) (b) "authorised the arrest" and
        substituting "granted the injunction";

   (f)  by omitting from paragraph (4) (a) "in connection with which that
        court or another court authorised the arrest of the person without
        warrant";

   (g)  by omitting subsection (6).