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DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE ACT 2007 (NO 34 OF 2007) - SECT 21 What DVO may provide

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE ACT 2007 (NO 34 OF 2007) - SECT 21

What DVO may provide

    (1)     A DVO may provide for any of the following:

    (a)     an order imposing the restraints on the defendant stated in the DVO as the issuing authority considers are necessary or desirable to prevent the commission of domestic violence against the protected person;

Examples of DVOs for paragraph (a)

1     An order restraining the defendant from contacting (directly or indirectly) the protected person.

2     An order restraining the defendant from approaching the protected person or premises stated in the DVO.

3     An order requiring the defendant to refrain from harassing, threatening, verbally abusing or assaulting the protected person.

    (b)     an order imposing the obligations on the defendant stated in the DVO as the issuing authority considers are necessary or desirable:

        (i)     to ensure the defendant accepts responsibility for the violence committed against the protected person; and

        (ii)     to encourage the defendant to change his or her behaviour;

(c)     other orders the issuing authority considers are just or desirable to make in the circumstances of the particular case.

Example of other orders for paragraph (c)

An order requiring the return of personal property to the defendant or protected person.

    (2)     Subsection (1) is not limited by the specific orders provided in this Part.

Note

Under sections 39 and 40 of the Firearms Act, a licence, permit or certificate of registration is automatically suspended or revoked on the making of a DVO.