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AUTONOMOUS SANCTIONS ACT 2011 (NO. 38, 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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