Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND PROTECTION ORDERS ACT 2001 (REPEALED) - SECT 6

    (1)     In deciding an application for a protection order, the paramount consideration is—

        (a)     for a domestic violence order—the need to ensure that the aggrieved person, and any child at risk of exposure to domestic violence, is protected from domestic violence; and

        (b)     for a personal protection order (other than a workplace order)—the need to ensure that the aggrieved person is protected from personal violence; and

        (c)     for a workplace order—the need to ensure that employees and other people at the workplace are protected from personal violence at the workplace.

    (2)     If a protection order is to be made on an application under this Act, it must be the protection order that is least restrictive of the personal rights and liberties of the respondent as possible that still achieves the objects of the Act and gives effect to subsection (1).