Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 140

140 Tenancy application may be removed to Magistrates Court

(1) This section applies if—

(a) an application for a protection order, or a variation of a domestic violence order, is made to a Magistrates Court; and

(b) the aggrieved or respondent makes an application (a
"tenancy application" ) to QCAT for an order under the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008 , sections 245 , 321 or 323 .

(2) The Magistrates Court may, on application of either the aggrieved or respondent and if the court considers it appropriate, order that the tenancy application be removed to the Magistrates Court.