Restraining Orders Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2017 (WA)

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Restraining Orders Act 1997

Restraining Orders Amendment Regulations

(No. 2) 2017

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.       Citation

These regulations are the Restraining Orders Amendment
Regulations (No. 2) 2017.

2.     Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a) regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these

regulations are published in the Gazette;

(b)	the rest of the regulations — on the day on which the
Domestic Violence Orders (National Recognition) Act 2017 Part 2 comes into operation.

3.      Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Restraining Orders
Regulations 1997.

4.      Schedule 1 Form 10 amended

(1)	In Schedule 1 Form 10 Part A after the item 4̀Issuing	police officer"
insert:

THIS IS A NATIONALLY RECOGNISED ORDER

(2)	In Schedule 1 Form 10 Part C before the paragraph that begins with "Penalty:" insert:
When this nationally recognised police order was served on you it became immediately enforceable in all Australian States, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory under a national recognition scheme for domestic violence orders. If you breach this order when you are in Australia but outside Western Australia, you will be subject to the penalties that apply in the jurisdiction in which the breach occurred.
(3)	In Schedule 1 Form 10 Part C in the paragraph that begins with
"Penalty:" delete "will consider" and insert:
may consider

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(4)	In Schedule 1 Form 10 Part D before the paragraph that begins with "Penalty:" insert:
bound by this order it became immediately enforceable in all Australian States, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory under a national recognition scheme for domestic violence orders. If the person who is bound by this order breaches this order when the person is in Australia but outside
When this nationally recognised police order was served on the person who is jurisdiction in which the breach occurred.

R. NEILSON, Clerk of the Executive Council.