FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2008 - SECT 176M Determination made when hearing application for final personal safety intervention order

FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2008 - SECT 176M

    (1)     This section applies if, during a hearing of an application for a final personal safety intervention order, the court makes a determination under section 176E(2)(b).

    (2)     On making the determination, the court—

        (a)     if there is an existing interim personal safety intervention order—

              (i)     must revoke the interim personal safety intervention order; and

              (ii)     may make an interim family violence intervention order if there are grounds for making the order under section 53; and

        (b)     do either of the following, as the interests of justice require—

              (i)     adjourn the proceeding; or

              (ii)     continue to hear the matter.

S. 176N inserted by No. 53/2010 s. 215.