FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2008 - SECT 132 Notice of hearings
FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2008 - SECT 132
Notice of hearingsS. 132(1) amended by No. 83/2012 s. 18(1).
(1) Before a relevant court makes a counselling order, or varies or revokes a counselling order, the appropriate registrar for the court must serve notice of the hearing on the respondent.
S. 132(2) amended by No. 83/2012 s. 18(2).
(2) A relevant court may make the order in the respondent's absence if the respondent fails to attend the hearing.
S. 132(3) amended by No. 83/2012 s. 18(1)(3).
(3) Despite subsection (1), if the respondent is before a relevant court when it makes a final order in respect of the respondent, the court may make an order under section 129, without giving any notice to the respondent, immediately after it makes the intervention order.
(4) Subsection (1) does not apply to a variation under section 129(4) or 130(3).
S. 133 amended by No. 83/2012 s. 19, substituted by No. 19/2017 s. 37.