28Making of provisional order by authorised officer

28 Making of provisional order by authorised officer

28 Making of provisional order by authorised officer

(1) An authorised officer to whom an application is made for a provisional order may, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, make the provisional order.

(2) Section 21 (Referral of matters to mediation) applies to an authorised officer when considering whether to make a provisional order that is an interim apprehended personal violence order or after making such an order in the same way as it applies to a court.

(3) Section 81 applies to the making of a provisional order by an authorised officer in the same way as that section applies to other orders.

s 28: Am 2013 No 87, Sch 1 [6]; 2016 No 55, Sch 3.6.