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Family Violence Act 2016
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70D Self-represented parties (1) This section applies if a party to an application for a protection order is not represented by a lawyer. (2) Unless the court requires a document to be served by a police officer, the registrar must serve any document required to be served by the self-represented party. (3) Any address for service given to the court must not be given to the other party without the self-represented party’s consent.