Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 1989 - SECT 63

(1) A person who is aggrieved by an order of a Magistrates Court or the Childrens Court constituted by a Childrens Court magistrate, or a decision of a magistrate--

(a) to refuse an application for--

(i) a protection order; or

(ii) a revocation or variation of a domestic violence order (including a refusal to vary conditions imposed by the order); or

(b) to make a domestic violence order; or

(c) to revoke or vary a domestic violence order (including a variation of the conditions imposed by the order);

may appeal to the District Court at or nearest to the place where the order or decision was made.

(2) A person who is aggrieved by a decision of the Childrens Court constituted by a District Court judge, the District Court or the Supreme Court under section 30 may appeal the decision to the Court of Appeal.

(3) Any such appeal shall be instituted within 28 days after the day on which the order or decision is made or, where the order was made in the absence of the person who is thereby aggrieved, after the day on which a copy of the order is served on or given to that person.