Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 196

196 Domestic violence order to continue to have effect

(1) This section applies to a domestic violence order made or varied under the repealed Act that was in force immediately before the commencement.

(2) The domestic violence order is taken to have been made or varied under this Act.

(3) A condition of the domestic violence order is taken to be a condition imposed under part 3, division 5 of this Act.

(4) If an adult was named in the domestic violence order under section 21 of the repealed Act, the adult is taken to be a person named in the order under section 52 of this Act.

(5) If a child was named in the domestic violence order under section 21 of the repealed Act, the child is taken to be a person named in the order under section 53 of this Act.

(6) Section 177 of this Act applies in relation to the domestic violence order even though a thing mentioned in section 177(1)(a) to (c) happened before the commencement of that section.

(7) A reference in section 177(2) of this Act to an offence under part 7 includes an offence under section 80 of the repealed Act.