106BAPowers of justices to make family violence orders after restraint order applications made

106BA Powers of justices to make family violence orders after restraint order applications made

[Section 106BA Inserted by No. 32 of 2015, s. 15, Applied:06 Oct 2015] If –

(a) an application for a restraint order has been made in accordance with section 106B ; and

(b) at any stage of the proceedings in respect of the application for the restraint order, the justices consider that the application should have been made as an application under section 15 of the Family Violence Act 2004 for a family violence order –

the justices may proceed under that Act as if the application for the restraint order were an application for a family violence order.