Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 80

80 Court must consider matters relating to weapons

(1) This section applies if—

(a) the respondent is present in court; or

(b) a police officer is the applicant for a domestic violence order, or otherwise appears in the proceeding before the court.

(2) Before making a domestic violence order, the court must ask about—

(a) whether the respondent has a weapons licence; and

(b) whether the respondent possesses a weapon; and

(c) whether the respondent has access to a weapon as part of the respondent’s employment; and

(d) whether the respondent has access to a weapon because the respondent is a person mentioned in the Weapons Act , section 2 ; and

(e) if paragraph (c) or (d) apply—

(i) the respondent’s employer, including the employer’s name and address; and

(ii) the employment or other arrangements relating to the respondent having access to a weapon.

(3) After asking about the matters mentioned in subsection (2) , the court may include 1 or more of the following in the domestic violence order to the extent the court considers reasonable—

(a) information about any weapons licence of the respondent;

(b) information about any weapon the respondent possesses;

(c) information about any weapon to which the respondent has access because of the respondent’s employment;

(d) information about any weapon to which the respondent has access because the respondent is a person mentioned in the Weapons Act , section 2 ;

(e) a statement that when the domestic violence order is served on the respondent the Weapons Act applies to the respondent under section 83 , despite the Weapons Act , section 2 .

(4) Subsection (3) does not limit section 84 or 85 .

(5) In this section—

"employment" , of a respondent, includes employment by a partnership in which the respondent is a partner.