Queensland Numbered Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 No. 5 - SECT 80

(1) This section applies if—

(a) the respondent is present in court; or

(b) a police officer is the applicant for a domestic violence order, or otherwise appears in the proceeding before the court.

(2) Before making a domestic violence order, the court must ask about—

(a) whether the respondent has a weapons licence; and

(b) whether the respondent possesses a weapon; and

(c) whether the respondent has access to a weapon as part of the respondent's employment; and

(d) whether the respondent has access to a weapon because the respondent is a person mentioned in the Weapons Act, section 2; and

(e) if paragraph (c) or (d) apply—

(i) the respondent's employer, including the employer's name and address; and

(ii) the employment or other arrangements relating to the respondent having access to a weapon.

(3) After asking about the matters mentioned in subsection (2), the court may include 1 or more of the following in the domestic violence order to the extent the court considers reasonable—

(a) information about any weapons licence of the respondent;

(b) information about any weapon the respondent possesses;

(c) information about any weapon to which the respondent has access because of the respondent's employment;

(d) information about any weapon to which the respondent has access because the respondent is a person mentioned in the Weapons Act, section 2;

(e) a statement that when the domestic violence order is served on the respondent the Weapons Act applies to the respondent under section 83, despite the Weapons Act, section 2.

(4) Subsection (3) does not limit section 84 or 85.

(5) In this section—

employment, of a respondent, includes employment by a partnership in which the respondent is a partner.