Queensland Numbered Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2016 - SECT 37

37 Amendment of s 129 (When police officer may apply for temporary protection order)

Section 129(2)—
omit, insert—

(2) A police officer must apply for a temporary protection order against a person taken into custody under division 3 if—

(a) an application for a protection order against the person has been prepared as required under section 118(1); and

(b) it is not reasonably practicable, as mentioned in section 118(2), to bring the person before the court for the hearing of the application while the respondent is still in lawful custody; and

(c) the date for the hearing of the application for the protection order, as stated on the copy of the application prepared under section 118(1), is more than 5 business days after the day the person is to be released.