Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 156

156 Provisions concerning warrants

(1) A court must not order the issue of a warrant under this Act as a matter of course, but only where, in the circumstances of the case, the court believes it appropriate that the respondent or, as the case may be, offender, be heard.

(2) If a person is taken into custody under a warrant issued under this Act, the provisions of the Bail Act 1980 apply to the person as if the person had been apprehended on a charge of an offence.