PERSONAL SAFETY INTERVENTION ORDERS ACT 2010 - SECT 62 No final order if existing family violence intervention order

PERSONAL SAFETY INTERVENTION ORDERS ACT 2010 - SECT 62

The court must not make a final order under section 61 or 64 if there is an existing family violence intervention order or non-local DVO made by a court that is a recognised DVO for which—

        (a)     the affected person is a protected person and the respondent is a respondent; or

        (b)     the respondent is a protected person and the affected person is a respondent.

Example

B is a protected person under a family violence intervention order; C is a respondent for that order. The court cannot make a final order to protect C from B or to protect B from C.

S. 63 (Heading) amended by No. 16/2011 s. 8(1).