sec.3Main objects

### sec.3 Main objects The main objects of this Act are— to maximise the safety, protection and wellbeing of people who fear or experience domestic violence, and to minimise disruption to their lives; and to prevent or reduce domestic violence and the exposure of children to domestic violence; and to ensure that people who commit domestic violence are held accountable for their actions. The objects are to be achieved mainly by— allowing a court to make a domestic violence order to provide protection against further domestic violence; and giving police particular powers to respond to domestic violence, including the power to issue a police protection direction or police protection notice; and imposing consequences for contravening a domestic violence order, police protection direction or police protection notice, in particular, liability for the commission of an offence. s 3 amd 2025 No. 18 s 4 (sec.3-ssec.1) The main objects of this Act are— to maximise the safety, protection and wellbeing of people who fear or experience domestic violence, and to minimise disruption to their lives; and to prevent or reduce domestic violence and the exposure of children to domestic violence; and to ensure that people who commit domestic violence are held accountable for their actions. (sec.3-ssec.2) The objects are to be achieved mainly by— allowing a court to make a domestic violence order to provide protection against further domestic violence; and giving police particular powers to respond to domestic violence, including the power to issue a police protection direction or police protection notice; and imposing consequences for contravening a domestic violence order, police protection direction or police protection notice, in particular, liability for the commission of an offence. - (a) to maximise the safety, protection and wellbeing of people who fear or experience domestic violence, and to minimise disruption to their lives; and - (b) to prevent or reduce domestic violence and the exposure of children to domestic violence; and - (c) to ensure that people who commit domestic violence are held accountable for their actions. - (a) allowing a court to make a domestic violence order to provide protection against further domestic violence; and - (b) giving police particular powers to respond to domestic violence, including the power to issue a police protection direction or police protection notice; and - (c) imposing consequences for contravening a domestic violence order, police protection direction or police protection notice, in particular, liability for the commission of an offence.