Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 1989 - SECT 24

(1) Before making a domestic violence order, the court must ask about--

(a) weapons licences or weapons in the respondent's possession; and

(b) whether the respondent may access weapons as part of the respondent's employment; and

(c) whether the respondent may be a person to whom the Weapons Act does not apply; and

(d) both of the following if the respondent may access a weapon as part of the respondent's employment or because the Weapons Act does not apply to the respondent--

(i) the respondent's employer, including the employer's name and address;

(ii) the employment arrangements relating to the weapon that the respondent may access as part of the respondent's employment.

(2) After asking about matters under subsection (1), the court may include 1 or more of the following in the domestic violence order to the extent the court considers reasonable--

(a) information about any weapons licences or weapons in the respondent's possession;

(b) a statement that when the order is served on the person the Weapons Act applies to the person under section 23 of this Act, despite the Weapons Act, section 2;

(c) information about weapons that the respondent had access to as part of the respondent's employment or because the Weapons Act, before the order was made, did not apply to the respondent.

(3) In this section--

employment, of a respondent, includes employment by a partnership in which the respondent is a partner.