PERSONAL SAFETY INTERVENTION ORDERS ACT 2010 - SECT 56 Disputed report

PERSONAL SAFETY INTERVENTION ORDERS ACT 2010 - SECT 56

    (1)     If any matter in an assessment report is disputed by the person who is the subject of the report, the Children's Court must not take the disputed matter into consideration when deciding whether to make a personal safety intervention order unless satisfied that the matter is true on the balance of probabilities.

    (2)     If—

        (a)     an assessment report, or any part of it, is disputed by the person who is the subject of the report; and

        (b)     the author of the report does not attend the hearing of the proceeding despite having been required to attend under section 59(1)—

the Children's Court must not take the report or the part in dispute into consideration when determining the proceeding unless the person consents to the report or the part in dispute being admitted into evidence.