Queensland Numbered Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 No. 5 - SECT 86

(1) An application for a variation of a domestic violence order may be made to a court by—

(a) the aggrieved; or

(b) the respondent; or

(c) a named person; or

(d) an authorised person for the aggrieved; or

(e) a person acting under another Act for a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c); or

(f) a police officer.

(2) The application must—

(a) be in the approved form; and

(b) state the grounds on which it is made; and

(c) state the nature of the variation sought; and

(d) if the applicant is not a police officer—be verified by the applicant by a statutory declaration; and

(e) be filed in the court.

(3) The variation sought may relate to any aspect of the domestic violence order including, for example—

(a) a condition of the order;

(b) the duration of the order;

(c) the persons named in the order.

(4) However, a variation sought by a named person, or a person mentioned in subsection (1)(e) acting for a named person, may relate only to—

(a) the naming of the person in the order; or

(b) a condition of the order relating to the named person.

(5) An application for a variation of a domestic violence order may be made only while the domestic violence order is still in force.