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#### 87C Content of serious domestic abuse prevention order
87C Content of serious domestic abuse prevention order
> > (1) A serious domestic abuse prevention order may contain prohibitions, restrictions, requirements and other provisions as the court considers appropriate to prevent the person engaging in domestic abuse in relation to the following—
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> > > (a) family members of the person,
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> > > (b) former, current or potential intimate partners of the person,
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> > > (c) persons in a domestic relationship with an intimate partner of the person.
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> > (2) However, a serious domestic abuse prevention order must not contain provisions that require a person—
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> > > (a) to answer questions or provide information orally, or
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> > > (b) to answer questions, or to provide documents or other information, that are subject to client legal privilege (legal professional privilege), or
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> > > (c) to disclose protected confidences within the meaning of the [Evidence Act 1995](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1995-025), Part 3.10, Division 1A, or
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> > > (d) to provide documents or other information that is held by the person in confidence as part of a banking business unless—
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> > > > (i) the person to whom the confidence is owed has consented, or
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> > > > (ii) the order specifically requires the provision or production of the documents or other information concerned, or documents or other information of the kind concerned, or
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> > > (e) to answer questions, or to provide documents or other information, that would result in a disclosure prohibited by a provision of another Act, other than the [Evidence Act 1995](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1995-025).
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> > (3) Without limiting subsection (2), an answer, document or other information given by a person in compliance with a requirement of a serious domestic abuse prevention order (the compelled evidence) is not admissible as evidence against that person in civil or criminal proceedings other than—
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> > > (a) proceedings for an offence against section 87E, or
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> > > (b) proceedings in which the person has adduced the compelled evidence.
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> **s 87C:** Ins 2024 No 59, Sch 1\[17\].