Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 178

178 Contravention of police protection notice

(1) This section applies to a respondent in relation to whom a police protection notice is in force.

Note—

See section 113 (1) for when a police protection notice takes effect.

(2) The respondent must not contravene the police protection notice.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—120 penalty units or 3 years imprisonment.

(3) A court hearing proceedings for the prosecution of an offence against subsection (2) must consider whether the police protection notice was issued in substantial compliance with part 4 , division 2 .

(4) If the police protection notice took effect under section 113 (1) (b) , the prosecution bears the onus of proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the respondent has been told by a police officer about the existence of a police protection notice or about a condition of the notice the respondent is alleged to have contravened.