Queensland Numbered Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 No. 5 - SECT 37

(1) A court may make a protection order against a person (the respondent) for the benefit of another person (the aggrieved) if the court is satisfied that—

(a) a relevant relationship exists between the aggrieved and the respondent; and

(b) the respondent has committed domestic violence against the aggrieved; and

(c) the protection order is necessary or desirable to protect the aggrieved from domestic violence.

(2) In deciding whether a protection order is necessary or desirable to protect the aggrieved from domestic violence, the court—

(a) must consider the principles mentioned in section 4; and

(b) may consider whether a voluntary intervention order has previously been made against the respondent and whether the respondent has complied with the order.

(3) If an application for a protection order names more than 1 respondent, the court may make a domestic violence order or domestic violence orders naming 1, some or all of the respondents, as the court considers appropriate.