Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Firstly, an application for a protection order may be made to a Magistrates Court by any of the persons mentioned in section 14.
(2) Secondly, a police officer may apply to a magistrate for a temporary protection order under section 54.
(3) Thirdly, if a person is before a Magistrates Court, the Childrens Court, the District Court or the Supreme Court for an offence involving domestic violence, the court may make a domestic violence order under section 30.
(4) Fourthly, if a person has obtained an order from another State, a Territory or New Zealand to protect himself or herself, the order may be registrable in Queensland under part 3, division 3.