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DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE ACT 2007 - SECT 103C

Domestic violence concerns – SA and WA orders

    (1)     An intervention order under the Intervention Orders (Prevention of Abuse) Act 2009 (SA) addresses a domestic violence concern if the order is made because it is reasonable to suspect that the respondent will, without intervention, commit an act of domestic violence (within the meaning of that Act).

    (2)     A violence restraining order under the Restraining Orders Act 1997 (WA) addresses a domestic violence concern if the order is made because the respondenthas committed, or because it is feared the defendant will commit, an act of family and domestic violence (within the meaning of section 6 of that Act).

    (3)     For this Chapter, a general violence order is taken to be an order that addresses a domestic violence concern if:

        (a)     it is declared to be an order that addresses a domestic violence concern by the issuing authority that makes the order; or

        (b)     a registrar of a court of the jurisdiction in which the order was made makes an order declaring the DVO to be a recognised DVO in that jurisdiction.

    (4)     For this Chapter, the regulations may prescribe circumstances in which an order made in a participating jurisdiction is taken to be an order that addresses a domestic violence concern .



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