Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

PROTECTION ORDERS (RECIPROCAL (NO. 40 OF 1998) - SECT 4

    Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended—

    (a)     by omitting the definitions of “interstate court” and “interstate order”; and

    (b)     by inserting the following definitions:

“ ‘recognised court' means—

        (a)     when used with the indefinite article—a court in a State, another Territory or New Zealand that may make a recognised order; and

        (b)     in relation to a recognised order—the court that made the order;

‘recognised order' means an order, made under a law of a State, another Territory or New Zealand, that has substantially the same effect as a protection order;”.