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Family Violence Amendment Bill 2017
The Family Violence Act 2004 (the Act) provides the framework for an integrated criminal justice
response to family violence, promoting the safety of those affected by family violence.
The Family Violence Amendment Bill 2017 (the Bill) makes amendments to the Act.
This Bill provides:
for a judge to direct that an indictable offence dealt with by the Supreme Court be
recorded as a family violence offence on a perpetrators criminal record.
that where the prosecution informs the court it will tender no evidence on a family
violence offence and the matter is discharged, that the evidence relevant to the
discharged matter may be admissible as relationship, tendency or coincidence evidence
in relation to another family violence charge.
that a person protected by a protection order cannot be charged with an offence of
instigating, abetting or aiding the contravention of a protection order unless the
relevant conduct resulted in an affected child named in the order being placed in a
position of risk.
that the court may impose electronic monitoring as a condition of a family violence
order where the person against whom the order is to be made has a history of
committing family violence offences, has previously been found guilty of a family
violence offence or is currently charged with a family violence offence.
for a review of the effectiveness of the inclusion of electronic monitoring conditions in
family violence orders.
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