Western Australian Current Acts

RESTRAINING ORDERS ACT 1997 - SECT 10

10 .         Preparation and service of orders

        (1)         A restraining order may be prepared in a manner authorised under the rules of court and the rules may make provision for —

            (a)         serving the respondent’s copy and the respondent’s endorsement copy (if 1 is required to be served) of the order on the person who is bound by the order; and

            (b)         delivering the applicant’s copy of the order to —

                  (i)         the person seeking to be protected by the order; or

                  (ii)         the parent or guardian of that person, if the parent or guardian made the application for the order on behalf of that person;

                and

            (c)         delivering the police copy of the order to the Commissioner of Police; and

            (d)         placing the court copy of the order on the court’s records.

        (1A)         If a restraining order is taken to have been served under section 55(3a), the respondent’s copy and the respondent’s endorsement copy are not required to be served under rules of court made under subsection (1)(a) but are to be —

            (a)         delivered to the respondent; and

            (b)         if rules of court make provision for delivery under paragraph (a) — delivered in accordance with those rules.

        (2)         If an authorised person is to prepare and serve a telephone order the person is to prepare the order in the prescribed form in accordance with the instructions of the authorised magistrate who made the order and cause —

            (a)         the respondent’s copy and the respondent’s endorsement copy of the order to be served on the respondent; and

            (b)         the applicant’s copy of the order to be delivered to —

                  (i)         the person seeking to be protected by the order; or

                  (ii)         the parent or guardian of that person, where the parent or guardian made the application for the order on behalf of that person;

                and

            (c)         the police copy of the order to be delivered to the Commissioner of Police; and

            (d)         the court copy of the order to be delivered to the Magistrates Court at the place where the authorised magistrate who made the order sits.

        (3)         The registrar of the Magistrates Court to which the court copy of the order is delivered under subsection (2)(d) is to cause the order to be delivered to the authorised magistrate who made it and a copy of it to be delivered —

            (a)         if the respondent is a child, to the Children’s Court; or

            (b)         otherwise, to the Magistrates Court,

                at the place nearest to where the respondent lives.

        (3a)         The registrar of the court to which an order is delivered under subsection (3) is to register it.

        (4)         If a police officer is to prepare and serve a police order the officer is to prepare the order in the form prescribed in the regulations and cause —

            (a)         the person to be bound by the order to be personally served with it; and

            (b)         a copy of the order to be given to the person for whose benefit the order is to be made; and

            (c)         the police copy of the order to be delivered to the Commissioner of Police.

        [Section 10 amended: No. 38 of 2004 s. 10, 18(3) and 38(4); No. 59 of 2004 s. 123 and 124; No. 5 of 2008 s. 92; No. 49 of 2016 s. 13; No. 13 of 2020 s. 32.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 49 of 2016 s. 14.]