Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 1990 (NO. 30 OF 1990) - SECT 6

6. After section 7 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

“7A. (1) Where—

        (a)     an application for a protection order is made by a child;

        (b)     the child is not separately represented by another person; and

        (c)     it appears to the Court that the child should be so represented;

the Court may, of its own motion or on the application of a person (including the child), order that the child be separately represented by another person and the Court may make such other orders as it thinks necessary to secure that representation.

“(2) Where the Court orders that a child be separately represented, the Court may request that the representation be arranged by the Legal Aid Office (A.C.T.).”.