Application for MRO
38 Application for MRO
An application for an MRO may be made by —
the person seeking to be protected; or
a police officer on behalf of that person.
An application for an MRO may also be made —
if the person seeking to be protected is a child, by a parent or guardian of the child, or a child welfare officer, on behalf of the child; or
if the person seeking to be protected is a person for whom a guardian has been appointed under the Guardianship and Administration Act 1990, by the guardian on behalf of the person.
If there is no particular person seeking to be protected an application for an MRO may be made by a police officer on behalf of the public generally.
An application for an MRO is to be made in accordance with the rules of court (using, if the regulations so require, the prescribed form) to —
if the respondent is a child, the Children’s Court; or
otherwise, the Magistrates Court.
[Section 38 inserted: No. 22 of 2000 s. 8; amended: No. 38 of 2004 s. 55; No. 59 of 2004 s. 124; No. 49 of 2016 s. 45; No. 30 of 2020 s. 65.]
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
, prescribed form
). Made under this Act:
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