Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 169C

169C Definitions for part

(1) In this part—

"information" includes a document.

"prescribed entity" means each of the following—

(a) the chief executive of a department that is mainly responsible for any of the following matters—

(i) adult corrective services;

(ii) child protection services;

(iii) community services;

(iv) court services;

(v) disability services;

(vi) education;

(vii) housing services;

(viii) public health services;

(ix) youth justice services;

(b) the chief executive of another department that provides services to persons who fear or experience domestic violence or who commit domestic violence;

(c) the commissioner under the Ambulance Service Act 1991 ;

(d) the police commissioner;

(e) the chief executive officer of Mater Misericordiae Ltd (ACN 096 708 922);

(f) a health service chief executive under the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011 ;

(g) the principal of a school that is accredited, or provisionally accredited, under the Education (Accreditation of Non-State Schools) Act 2001 ;

(h) another entity prescribed by regulation.

"specialist DFV service provider" means a non-government entity funded by the State or Commonwealth to provide services to persons who fear or experience domestic violence or who commit domestic violence.

"support service provider" means a non-government entity, other than a specialist DFV service provider, that provides assistance or support services to persons who may include persons who fear or experience domestic violence or who commit domestic violence.

Examples of assistance or support services—

• counselling

• disability services

• health services

• housing and homelessness services

• legal services

• sexual assault services

(2) In this part, a reference to domestic violence includes a reference to associated domestic violence.