Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

FAMILY VIOLENCE ACT 2016 - SECT 7

This Act aims to achieve its objects by—

        (a)     giving the courts power to make family violence orders to protect people from family violence; and

        (b)     creating offences to enforce family violence orders; and

        (c)     ensuring that access to the courts is as simple, quick and inexpensive as is consistent with justice; and

        (d)     by recognising family violence orders made elsewhere in Australia and New Zealand.