Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Family Violence Protection Act 2008 - SECT 33

Address for service

33. Address for service



(1) If a police officer issues a family violence safety notice, that police
officer, or the police officer who applied for the notice, must-

   (a)  ask the respondent to provide an address for the service of documents;
        and

   (b)  advise the respondent that if a police officer is unable to locate the
        respondent to serve the respondent with a document under this Act the
        police officer may, under section 207, seek information about the
        respondent from public sector organisations.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the address may be-

   (a)  the address of accommodation arranged under section 36; or

   (b)  the address of a friend or family member of the respondent.

(3) The respondent is not obliged to comply with the request to provide an
address.

(4) If the respondent provides an address under subsection (1) other than the
address where the respondent lives or works and another person living at the
address advises the court that the person does not consent to the use of the
address for the service of documents under this Act, the address is not a
valid address for the service of the documents.