Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Amendment (Prescribed Form) Regulation 2019 (NSW)

New South Wales

Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence)

Amendment (Prescribed Form) Regulation

2019

under the

Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007.

MARK SPEAKMAN, MP

Attorney General, and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to simplify the language in prescribed forms used for applications for apprehended violence orders.

This Regulation is made under the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007, including sections
50(2) and 101 (the general regulation-making power).

Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Amendment (Prescribed Form) Regulation 2019 [NSW]

Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Amendment

(Prescribed Form) Regulation 2019

under the

Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Amendment

(Prescribed Form) Regulation 2019.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Regulation 2019

Schedule 1 Application notices for apprehended violence orders

Omit the matter relating to Orders about behaviour wherever occurring in Form 1 and Form 2.

Insert instead—

Orders about behaviour

1              The defendant must not do any of the following to the protected person(s) or anyone the protected person(s) has a domestic relationship with:

(a)	assault or threaten them, and
(b)	stalk, harass or intimidate them, and
(c)	intentionally or recklessly destroy or damage any property that belongs to or is in the possession of them.