48Service of application

48 Service of application

As soon as practicable after an application for a family violence intervention order is made, the appropriate registrar for the court must serve the application on—

(a) the respondent; and

(b) if the applicant for the order is not the affected family member—

(i) the affected family member; or

(ii) if the affected family member is a child and the application was made with the consent of the child's parent, that parent;

(iii) if the affected family member is a child and the application was made with the leave of the court, a parent of the child (other than the respondent) with whom the child normally or regularly lives;

(iv) if the affected family member has a guardian—the guardian.

Note to s. 48 inserted by No. 53/2010 s. 198.

See section 205(1), which provides that a person may serve a document by causing it to be served.