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AUTONOMOUS SANCTIONS ACT 2011 - SECT 14

Injunctions

  (1)   If a person has engaged, is engaging, or proposes to engage, in conduct involving a contravention of the regulations, a superior court may by order grant an injunction restraining the person from engaging in the conduct.

Note:   Contravention of the regulations may also be an offence against section   16.

  (2)   An injunction may be granted only on application by the Attorney - General.

  (3)   On an application, the court may grant an injunction by consent of all parties to the proceedings, whether or not the court is satisfied that subsection   (1) applies.

  (4)   A superior court may grant an interim injunction pending its determination of an application.

  (5)   A court is not to require the Attorney - General or anyone else to give an undertaking as to damages, as a condition of granting an interim injunction.

  (6)   A court may discharge or vary an injunction it has granted.

  (7)   The power to grant or vary an injunction restraining a person from engaging in conduct may be exercised:

  (a)   whether or not it appears to the court that the person intends to engage again, or to continue to engage, in such conduct; and

  (b)   whether or not the person has previously engaged in such conduct.


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