FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2008 - SECT 33 Address for service

FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2008 - SECT 33

    (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

S. 33(1)(b) substituted by No. 19/2017 s. 25(1).

        (b)     advise the respondent that a police officer may, under section 207, seek information about the respondent from public sector organisations—

              (i)     to enable a police officer to locate the respondent and serve the respondent with a document under this Act; or

              (ii)     to enable the respondent to be served with a document under an order for alternative service.

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

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

S. 33(2)(b) amended by No. 19/2017 s. 25(2)(a).

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

S. 33(2)(c) inserted by No. 19/2017 s. 25(2)(b).

        (c)     an email address.

Notes to s. 33(2) inserted by No. 19/2017 s. 25(2)(b).

Notes

1     The family violence safety notice must be served on the respondent personally. See  section 202(2).

2     Other documents may be served by email if the court makes an order for alternative service. See  section 202A.

    (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.