Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 113

113 Duration

(1) A police protection notice takes effect when—

(a) the notice is served on the respondent personally or in a way stated in a substituted service order; or

(b) a police officer tells the respondent about the existence of the notice and the conditions of the notice.

(2) For subsection (1) (b) , the respondent may be told by a police officer about the existence of the police protection notice in any way, including, for example, by telephone, email, SMS message, a social networking site or other electronic means.

(3) A police protection notice continues in force until—

(a) if, on an application for a temporary protection order made under section 129 (2) , a magistrate decides to make a temporary protection order—the temporary protection order is served on the respondent or otherwise becomes enforceable under section 177 ; or

(b) if, upon the hearing of the application for a protection order, the court decides to make a domestic violence order—the domestic violence order is served on the respondent or otherwise becomes enforceable under section 177 ; or

(c) if the court adjourns the application for a protection order and does not make a domestic violence order—the proceeding is adjourned; or

(d) if the court dismisses the application for a protection order—the application is dismissed.

(4) In this section, a reference to the application for a protection order is a reference to—

(a) the application for a protection order a police protection notice is taken to be under section 112 ; or

(b) if a police protection notice was issued against the respondent under section 101A when the respondent was released from custody—the application for a protection order against the respondent prepared while the respondent was in custody as required under section 118 .