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DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 1989 - SECT 20

20 Power of court to make order to protect person with a domestic relationship against domestic violence

(1) A court may make an order against a person for the benefit of someone else (the other person) if the court is satisfied that--

(a) the person has committed an act of domestic violence against the other person and a domestic relationship exists between the 2 persons; and
(b) the person--
(i) is likely to commit an act of domestic violence again; or
(ii) if the act of domestic violence was a threat--is likely to carry out the threat.

(2) A person who counsels or procures someone else to commit an act that, if done by the person, would be an act of domestic violence is taken to have committed the act.

(3) If an application for a protection order names more than 1 respondent, the court may make a domestic violence order or domestic violence orders naming 1, some or all of the respondents, as the court reasonably considers appropriate.



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