Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 217

217 Application to make or vary domestic violence order

(1) The amended Act applies to a proceeding for an application to make or vary a domestic violence order whether the proceeding was started before or after the commencement.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), if an intervention order has previously been made against the respondent, the respondent’s compliance with the order must not be the only reason the court decides—

(a) for an application to make a protection order—to refuse to make a protection order; or

(b) for an application to vary a domestic violence order—to vary a protection order.