Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 227

227 Existing registered interstate orders

(1) This section applies to an interstate order (a
"registered interstate order" ) that, immediately before the commencement—

(a) was in force in the State in which it was made; and

(b) was registered under previous part 6.

(2) The registered interstate order—

(a) continues to have the same effect as a protection order; and

(b) may continue to be enforced against a person as if it were a protection order that had been personally served on the person as a respondent.

(3) Subsection (2) applies for the period during which the registered interstate order, as originally made, is in force in the State in which it was made.

(4) Amended part 6, division 4 applies to a registered interstate order as though a reference in that division to a registered New Zealand order is a reference to a registered interstate order.

(5) Without limiting subsection (4), an application may be made and decided under section 176P for—

(a) a variation of the interstate order as it is registered in Queensland; or

(b) a variation of the period during which a registered interstate order has effect in its operation in Queensland; or

(c) the revocation of the registration of an interstate order.

(6) This section applies subject to section 176B.

(7) In this section—

"interstate order" means an order made by a court of another State under a law of the other State that was, immediately before the commencement, prescribed by regulation for previous part 6.

"previous part 6" means part 6 as in force from time to time before the commencement.

"State" includes New Zealand.