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RESTRAINING ORDERS ACT 1997 - SECT 10P

10P .         Approval of persons and of behaviour change programme

        (1)         The Minister may approve, in writing, any person (an eligibility assessor ) who the Minister considers has appropriate experience and qualifications to conduct eligibility assessment interviews and prepare eligibility assessment reports.

        (2)         The Minister may approve, in writing, a programme (a behaviour change programme ) that the Minister considers appropriate to —

            (a)         facilitate the acceptance by a respondent of responsibility for the respondent’s family violence and the effect it has on others; and

            (b)         encourage the respondent to stop committing further family violence; and

            (c)         deal with any other issues relating to the perpetrators of family violence.

        (3)         For the purposes of subsection (2), the Minister is to specify the person or body providing a behaviour change programme (a behaviour change programme provider ).

        (4)         The Minister must make available to a court if asked —

            (a)         a list of the persons approved under subsection (1) and their contact details; and

            (b)         a list of the behaviour change programmes approved under subsection (2); and

            (c)         the contact details of the behaviour change programme providers under subsection (3).

        [Section 10P inserted: No. 49 of 2016 s. 14.]



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