Queensland Consolidated Acts

PEACE AND GOOD BEHAVIOUR ACT 1982 - SECT 7

7 Magistrates Court may make order

(1) The court before which the defendant appears in obedience to the summons or is brought pursuant to the warrant, as the case may be, shall hear and determine the matter of the complaint.

(2) Without limiting any other evidence given by or on behalf of the defendant, the defendant may produce evidence that the complaint is made from malice or for vexation only.

(3) Upon a consideration of the evidence, the court may—

(a) dismiss the complaint; or

(b) make an order that the defendant shall keep the peace and be of good behaviour for such time, specified in the order, as the court thinks fit.

(4) The order made by the court may contain such other stipulations or conditions as the court thinks fit.