Western Australian Current Acts

RESTRAINING ORDERS ACT 1997 - SECT 79B

79B .         Applying for registration of foreign restraining orders

        (1)         An application for registration of a foreign restraining order may be made by —

            (a)         the person named in the order for whose benefit the order is made; or

            (b)         a police officer on behalf of that person.

        (1a)         An application for registration of a foreign restraining order may also be made —

            (a)         if the person named in the order for whose benefit the order is made is a child, by a parent or guardian of the child, or a child welfare officer, on behalf of the child; or

            (b)         if the person named in the order for whose benefit the order is made is under the guardianship of a guardian (however described) appointed under the law of the foreign country, by the guardian on behalf of the person.

        (2)         The application is to be made to the Magistrates Court in the prescribed form referred to in section 75(2).

        (3)         An application need not be served on the person who is bound by the order.

        [Section 79B inserted: No. 11 of 1999 s. 7; amended: No. 22 of 2000 s. 16; No. 38 of 2004 s. 52; No. 59 of 2004 s. 124; No. 49 of 2016 s. 85.]