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Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007
98ZTAProtection from liability where local DVO varied or revoked outside NSW
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#### 98ZTA Protection from liability where local DVO varied or revoked outside NSW
98ZTA Protection from liability where local DVO varied or revoked outside NSW
> > (1) Anything done or omitted to be done by a police officer in relation to the enforcement of a local DVO that has been revoked or varied as a result of action in another jurisdiction is taken to be lawfully done or omitted if—
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> > > (a) the police officer was not aware at the time the thing was done or omitted that the local DVO had been revoked or varied as a result of action in another jurisdiction, and
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> > > (b) the police officer acted in good faith on the basis of the information available to the police officer at the time the thing was done or omitted, and
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> > > (c) the thing would have been lawfully done or omitted if the local DVO had not been revoked or varied as a result of action in another jurisdiction.
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> > (2) For the purposes of this section, a local DVO is revoked or varied as a result of action in another jurisdiction if—
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> > > (a) the local DVO is superseded under this Part by an interstate DVO made in another jurisdiction or a foreign order that is a registered foreign order in another jurisdiction, or
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> > > (b) the local DVO is revoked by a court of another jurisdiction and that revocation is recognised in New South Wales under this Part, or
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> > > (c) a variation to the local DVO is done in another jurisdiction and that variation is a recognised variation in New South Wales under this Part.
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> **s 98ZTA:** Ins 2016 No 9, Sch 1 \[9\] (am 2017 No 44, Sch 1.7 \[13\]).