New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (DOMESTIC AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE) ACT 2007 - SECT 28B

28B Interaction with existing orders

(1) This section applies if an apprehended violence order is already in force against the defendant for the protection of the person concerned (an
"existing order" ).

(2) An issuing officer must not make a prohibition or restriction in a provisional order that would be inconsistent with a prohibition or restriction in the existing order if the effect would be to decrease the protection afforded to the protected person under the existing order.

(3) A prohibition or restriction specified in a provisional order that is inconsistent with a prohibition or restriction specified in the existing order in a way that would decrease the protection afforded to the protected person under the existing order is of no effect.

Note-: See section 81A for the effect of concurrent orders if there is an inconsistency between 2 or more concurrent orders.