Referral of application to Court for adaptation or modification
27P Referral of application to Court for adaptation or modification
If an application is referred to the Court under section 27O, the Commissioner must serve a copy of the application, with any accompanying affidavit, and an appearance notice, personally on the respondent.
The application may be heard in the respondent’s absence if the Court is satisfied that a copy of the application and an appearance notice were served on the respondent under subsection (1).
In this section—
appearance notice means a notice in writing stating the following in relation to an interstate control order—
that an application for the registration of the interstate control order has been referred to the Court,
when and where the application is to be heard,
that the respondent is required to appear at the hearing,
that the interstate control order, or the interstate control order as varied by the Court, may be registered in the respondent’s absence if the respondent fails to appear at the hearing.
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