Western Australian Current Acts

FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 232

232 .         Relationship between Division and other laws — FLA s. 112AM

        (1)         This section applies where an act or omission by a person —

            (a)         constitutes a contravention of an order under this Act; and

            (b)         is also an offence under a written law (an offence ).

        (2)         If a person is prosecuted in respect of an offence then a court in which proceedings brought under section 226 in respect of the contravention of the order are pending must either —

            (a)         adjourn those proceedings until the prosecution has been completed; or

            (b)         dismiss those proceedings.

        (3)         A person may be prosecuted for, and convicted of, an offence.

        (4)         Nothing in this section renders a person liable to be punished twice in respect of the same act or omission.

        [Section 232 amended: No. 25 of 2002 s. 24.]