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s 69EMB

Certain limits on granting injunctions not to apply

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Part 7ABEnforcement
Division 4Injunctions

69EMB Certain limits on granting injunctions not to apply

Restraining injunctions

(1)

The power of a court under this Division to grant an injunction restraining a person from engaging in conduct may be exercised:

(a)

whether or not it appears to the court that the person intends to engage again, or to continue to engage, in conduct of that kind; and

(b)

whether or not the person has previously engaged in conduct of that kind; and

(c)

whether or not the conduct involves a serious and immediate risk of:

(i)

an effect that is harmful to human beings; or

(ii)

an unintended effect that is harmful to animals, plants or things, or to the environment.

Performance injunctions

(2)

The power of a court under this Division to grant an injunction requiring a person to do a thing may be exercised:

(a)

whether or not it appears to the court that the person intends to refuse or fail again, or to continue to refuse or fail, to do that thing; and

(b)

whether or not the person has previously refused or failed to do that thing; and

(c)

whether or not the conduct involves a serious and immediate risk of:

(i)

an effect that is harmful to human beings; or

(ii)

an unintended effect that is harmful to animals, plants or things, or to the environment.

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