Western Australian Consolidated Acts

RESTRAINING ORDERS ACT 1997 - SECT 11B

11B .         Violence restraining order may be made for child in circumstances of family and domestic violence

                A violence restraining order may be made for the benefit of a child if the court is satisfied that —

            (a)         the child has been exposed to an act of family and domestic violence committed by or against a person with whom the child is in a family and domestic relationship and the child is likely again to be exposed to such an act; or

            (b)         the applicant, the child or a person with whom the child is in a family and domestic relationship reasonably fears that the child will be exposed to an act of family and domestic violence committed by or against a person with whom the child is in a family and domestic relationship,

                and that making a violence restraining order is appropriate in the circumstances.

        [Section 11B inserted by No. 38 of 2004 s. 11.]