Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND PROTECTION ORDERS ACT 2001 (REPEALED) - SECT 11

    (1)     This section applies to an application for a protection order, other than an application for an emergency order or to amend or revoke a protection order.

Note       If a form is approved under the Court Procedures Act 2004 for an application under this section, the form must be used.

    (2)     An aggrieved person may make an application.

Note 1     Different rules may apply to an aggrieved person with a legal disability (see s 12).

Note 2       An aggrieved person, for a workplace order, is the employer, not the person who has suffered the violence (see dict, def of aggrieved person ).

    (3)     Also, a police officer may make an application for an aggrieved person, or help an aggrieved person to make an application.

    (4)     Further, if the aggrieved person is a person with a legal disability, the public advocate may make an application as the person's next friend.

    (5)     This section does not affect any other right of a person to make an application for a protection order for an aggrieved person.

Examples of people with right to make application for protection order

A parent or guardian of a child who is an aggrieved person, or an agent of an aggrieved person.