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DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 225

Court may declare DVO to be recognised interstate order

225 Court may declare DVO to be recognised interstate order

(1) A court may declare a domestic violence order, police protection notice or release conditions to be a recognised interstate order to which amended part 6 applies for the purposes of the corresponding laws of other participating jurisdictions.
(2) Also, a court may declare an interstate order to be a recognised interstate order to which amended part 6 applies if, in the State in which it was made, the order—
(a) is in force; and
(b) is not a recognised interstate order.
(3) The jurisdiction in which the DVO was made does not have to be a participating jurisdiction.
(4) If an application for a declaration under subsection (1) or (2) is made under section 226, the court must make the declaration unless it is not in the interests of justice to do so.
(5) Without limiting subsection (4), the court may refuse to make the declaration if the court is not satisfied the respondent has been properly notified of the making of the interstate order under the law of the State in which the order was made.
(6) However, the court may not declare a general violence order to be a recognised interstate order to which amended part 6 applies.
(7) Notice of a declaration made under this section is to be given to the respondent only if the person who applied for the declaration consents.
(8) In this section—

"general violence order" means an order made under the corresponding law of another State that is declared by regulation to be a general violence order.

"interstate order" , of a jurisdiction, includes a registered foreign order registered in the jurisdiction.



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