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CurrentFailure to comply with injunction
Part 5Domestic violence and harassment
54 Failure to comply with injunction
(1)
A person against whom an injunction under section 53 has been granted and who—
(a)
has been served personally, in the prescribed manner, with a copy of the order under section 53 by which the injunction was granted, and
(b)
after having been so served, knowingly fails to comply with a restriction or prohibition specified in the order,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction before a Judge of the Local Court to imprisonment for 6 months.
(2)
Nothing in subsection (1) affects the power of a court to punish a person for contempt of court.
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