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FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 225

225 .         Meaning of reasonable excuse for contravening an order — FLA s. 112AC

        (1)         The circumstances in which a person may be treated as having had, for the purposes of this Part, a reasonable excuse for contravening an order under this Act include, but are not limited to, the circumstances set out in subsection (2).

        (2)         A person (the respondent ) is to be treated as having a reasonable excuse for contravening an order under this Act if —

            (a)         the respondent contravened the order because, or substantially because, the respondent did not, at the time of the contravention, understand the obligations imposed by the order on the person who was bound by it; and

            (b)         a court is satisfied that the respondent ought to be excused in respect of the contravention.

        [Section 225 amended: No. 25 of 2002 s. 18.]



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