South Australian Numbered Acts

CROSS-BORDER JUSTICE ACT 2009 (NO 18 OF 2009) - SECT 90

90—Registration of SA or NT restraining orders under WA law

        (1)         In this section—

"interstate restraining order" means—

            (a)         a restraining order of the State; or

            (b)         a restraining order of the Northern Territory;

"register" means to register under the restraining orders laws of Western Australia.

        (2)         A registrar of the Magistrates Court of Western Australia may register an interstate restraining order in the State if—

            (a)         the order was made, amended or varied in a cross-border proceeding of a prescribed court of the State or the Northern Territory for the purposes of which the person against whom the order was made had a connection with a cross-border region that is partly in Western Australia; or

            (b)         the person against whom, or for whose benefit, the order was made ordinarily resides in Western Australia.