Western Australian Current Acts

RESTRAINING ORDERS ACT 1997 - SECT 63C

63C .         Criminal and civil liability not affected by restraining orders

        (1)         A court may make or vary a restraining order even though the respondent has been charged with, or convicted of, an offence arising out of the same conduct as that out of which the application for the order arose.

        (2)         The making or varying of a restraining order does not, except as provided by this Act, affect the civil or criminal liability of a person bound by the order in respect of the same conduct as that out of which the application for the order arose.

        [Section 63C inserted: No. 38 of 2004 s. 45.]