New section 91A
18 New section 91A
After section 91
insert
91A Notification of DVO made in cross-border proceeding
(1) This section applies in relation to a DVO made by a prescribed court of the Territory if:
(a) the DVO is made or varied in a cross-border proceeding for the purposes of which the defendant has a connection with a cross-border region; and
(b) the protected person indicates at the time the DVO is made or varied that the person wants the DVO as made or varied to be registered under the restraining orders laws of another participating jurisdiction; and
the region is partly in the other jurisdiction.
A clerk must give a copy of the DVO as made or varied to :
(a) if the other jurisdiction is South Australia – the Principal Registrar of the Magistrates Court of South Australia; or
(b) if the other jurisdiction is Western Australia – the registrar of the Magistrates Court of Western Australia.
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