Victorian Numbered Acts

MAGISTRATES' COURT (FAMILY VIOLENCE) ACT 2004 (NO 77 OF 2004)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--MAGISTRATES' COURT ACT 1989

   3.      Definitions  
   4.      New sections 4H to 4L inserted  
   5.      New section 145 inserted  

   PART 3--CRIMES (FAMILY VIOLENCE) ACT 1987

   6.      Purpose  
   7.      Definitions  
   8.      Jurisdiction of Children's Court  
   9.      Intervention orders  
   10.     New section 4A inserted  
   11.     Restrictions in order  
   12.     Police complainants and police prosecutors  
   13.     Interim intervention orders made in the absence of defendant  
   14.     New Part 2A inserted  
   15.     Heading to Part 3  
   16.     Procedure in third party complaints  
   17.     Rules of evidence not to apply in certain cases  
   18.     Consent orders  
   19.     Repeal of section 14A  
   20.     Explanation of orders  
   21.     Section 16 substituted  
   22.     New section 16A inserted  
   23.     Service of intervention orders  
   24.     Repeal of section 18  
   25.     Appeal by defendant  
   26.     Appeal by complainant  
   27.     New sections 21A to 21D inserted  
   28.     Breach of an order  
   29.     Restriction on reports of proceedings involving children  
   30.     Intervention order prevails over order under Children and Young Persons Act 1989  
   31.     Relationship with Family Court contact orders  
   32.     Validation of certain orders  
   33.     Transitional  

   PART 4--REPEAL OF COUNSELLING ORDER PROVISIONS

           Division 1--Magistrates' Court Act 1989

   34.     Jurisdiction of Family Violence Court Division  

           Division 2--Crimes (Family Violence) Act 1987

   35.     Purpose  
   36.     Definition  
   37.     Intervention orders  
   38.     Part 2A repealed  
   39.     Appeal by defendant  
   40.     Concurrent criminal proceedings  
   41.     New section 28 inserted  
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