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FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2008 - SECT 125B

No double jeopardy—recognised DVOs

An accused person is not liable to be punished for an offence of contravening a family violence intervention order or a family violence safety notice if—

        (a)     the accused person is a respondent to a family violence safety notice, a family violence intervention order or a recognised DVO; and

        (b)     the conduct constituting the offence is both an offence against section 37, 37A, 123 or  123A and an offence against the law of another State or a Territory; and

        (c)     the accused person has been punished for that conduct in the other State or the Territory.

Part 5—Counselling orders

Division 1—Preliminary

S. 126 substituted by No. 83/2012 s. 13.



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