Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 1989 - SECT 34B

(1) A temporary protection order continues in force until the first of the following happens--

(a) the order is returnable before a court unless the court extends the order;

(b) the order is revoked by the court.

(2) Subsection (3) applies if--

(a) a temporary protection order is made and has not been revoked by a court; and

(b) a court makes a relevant protection order relating to the temporary protection order on the day the temporary protection order is returnable before the court.

(3) If the respondent is not before the court when the court makes the relevant protection order, despite subsection (1)(a), the court may order that the temporary protection order continues in force until the respondent is served with the relevant protection order.

(4) The temporary protection order continued in force under subsection (3) is binding on the respondent even though it is not served on the respondent.

(5) To remove doubt, it is declared that a court may find the respondent contravened--

(a) the temporary protection order continued in force under subsection (3); and

(b) the relevant protection order relating to the temporary protection order to the extent the respondent contravened a condition of the protection order about which a police officer told the respondent.

(6) In this section--

relevant protection order, relating to a temporary protection order, means the protection order made by a court on an application for a protection order, being the application that allowed a court to make the temporary protection order.