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Last Updated: 1 December 2016
AN ACT TO PROVIDE GREATER PROTECTION FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, TO CLARIFY THE DUTIES OF THE POLICE IN THAT REGARD, TO INTRODUCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESTRAINING ORDERS AND OTHER MEASURES TO PROMOTE THE SAFETY AND WELLBEING OF VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND TO PROMOTE REHABILITATION OF PERPETRATORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND FOR RELATED MATTERS
[DV 62] Registration of foreign domestic violence restraining orders62
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(2) Where the Attorney-General receives—
- (a)a certified copy of a foreign domestic violence restraining order;
- (b)a certificate—
- (i)that is signed by an officer of a court in the foreign country in which the order was made; and
- (ii)that contains a statement that the order is, at the date of the certificate, enforceable in the foreign country; and
- (c)written information tending to show that a person for whose protection the order was made—
- (i)is present in Fiji; or
- (ii)is proceeding to Fiji; or
- (iii)is about to proceed to Fiji,
the Attorney-General must send the documents to a clerk of the Magistrates Court for the purposes of registration.
(3) The clerk of the Magistrates Court must register the foreign domestic violence restraining order by filing a certified copy of the order in the court.
(4) Where the clerk of the Magistrates Court receives the documents described in subsection (2) other than from the Attorney-General, the Registrar may register the order if satisfied that the nature of the documents is such that, if they had been transmitted to the Attorney-General, they would have been sent to the clerk of the Magistrates Court by the Attorney-General.