Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Family Violence Protection Act 2008 - SECT 30

Duration of family violence safety notice

30. Duration of family violence safety notice



(1) A family violence safety notice-

   (a)  starts when the notice or a safety notice form is served on the
        respondent; and

   (b)  ends when the earlier of the following occurs-

   (i)  the court refuses to make a family violence intervention order on the
        first mention date for the application for the family violence
        intervention order;

   (ii) if the court makes a family violence intervention order on the first
        mention date-the order is served on the respondent.

(2) To avoid doubt, it is declared that if a safety notice form is
subsequently corrected and served on the respondent under section 34(b)-

   (a)  the family violence safety notice is taken to have started when a
        safety notice form referred to in subsection (1)(a) was served on the
        respondent; and

   (b)  the time by which the first mention date must be held, as referred to
        in section 31(3)(a), must be measured from the service of that form.