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RESTRAINING ORDERS ACT 1997 - SECT 6

6 .         Term used: personal violence

        [(1)         deleted]

        (2)         In this Act —

        personal violence means one of the following acts that a person commits against another person with whom he or she is not in a family relationship —

            (a)         assaulting or causing personal injury to the person;

            (b)         kidnapping, or depriving the liberty of, the person;

            (c)         stalking the person;

            (d)         threatening to commit any act described in paragraph (a) or (b) against the person;

            (e)         if the person who commits the act has an imagined personal relationship with the person against whom the act is committed, an act that would constitute family violence if those persons were in a family relationship.

        (3)         For the purposes of this Act, a person who procures another person to commit personal violence is taken to have also committed the personal violence.

        [Section 6 inserted: No. 38 of 2004 s. 7; amended: No. 5 of 2008 s. 91; No. 49 of 2016 s. 8.]



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