Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A person may
institute proceedings in a court for an injunction in relation to a child and
the court hearing the proceedings may make an order or grant an injunction as
it considers proper for the welfare of the child, including —
(a) an
injunction for the personal protection of the child; or
(b) an
injunction for the personal protection of —
(i)
a parent of the child; or
(ii)
a person with whom the child is to live under a parenting
order; or
(iii)
a person with whom the child is to spend time under a
parenting order; or
(iv)
a person with whom the child is to communicate under a
parenting order; or
(v)
a person who has parental responsibility for the child;
or
(c) an
injunction restraining a person from entering or remaining in —
(i)
a place of residence, employment or education of the
child; or
(ii)
a specified area that contains a place of a kind referred
to in subparagraph (i);
or
(d) an
injunction restraining a person from entering or remaining in —
(i)
a place of residence, employment or education of a person
referred to in paragraph (b); or
(ii)
a specified area that contains a place of a kind referred
to in subparagraph (i).
(2) In any proceedings
under this Act (other than proceedings to which subsection (1) applies) the
court hearing the proceedings may grant an injunction with respect to a matter
to which the proceedings relate, by interlocutory order or otherwise, in any
case in which it appears to the court to be just or convenient to do so.
(3) An injunction or
order under this section may be granted unconditionally or on such terms and
conditions as a court considers appropriate.
[Section 235 amended: No. 35 of 2006 s. 168.]