Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

PERSONAL VIOLENCE ACT 2016 - SECT 7

This Act aims to achieve its objects by—

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

        (b)     creating offences to enforce protection orders; and

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

        (d)     recognising registered orders made elsewhere in Australia and in New Zealand.