Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 1996 (NO 3 OF 1996)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Domestic Violence (Amendment) Act 1996.  
   3.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Domestic Violence Act 1986.1  
   4.      Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following definition:“ ‘relevant family contact order', in relation to a protection order or an interim protection order, means a Division 11 contact order within the meaning of Division 11 of Part 7 of the Family Law Act 1975 of the Commonwealth that relates to access between the aggrieved person or the respondent, and any child of either of those persons;”.  
   5.      After section 8 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:  
   6.      Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   7.      Section 14 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsections:  
   8.      Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsections:  
   9.      Section 30A of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:  
   10.     (1) The amendments effected by section 5 of this Act apply only in relation to applications for protection orders made after the commencement of this section.