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section 36 : prohibits engagement in conducts such as: 

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section 36 : prohibits engagement in conducts such as: 

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- intimidation
- stalking

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s35

prohibitions or restrictions on D ‘as appear necessary or desirable to the court and, in particular, to ensure the safety and protection of the person in need of protection and any children from domestic or personal violence.’ s 35(1)

Examples of such prohibitions or restrictions: – approaches by the D to protected person (“PP”); – access to any premises occupied by PP;

going to any place where the PP works;

any specified premises or place frequented by PP;

holding firearms or prohibited weapons;

on specified behaviour by the D that might affect the PP

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s16
16 Court may make apprehended domestic violence order

(1) A court may, on application, make an apprehended domestic violence order if it is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that a person who has or has had a domestic relationship with another person has reasonable grounds to fear and in fact fears:

(a) the commission by the other person of a domestic violence offence against the person, or

(b) the engagement of the other person in conduct in which the other person:

(i) intimidates the person or a person with whom the person has a domestic relationship, or

(ii) stalks the person,

being conduct that, in the opinion of the court, is sufficient to warrant the making of the order.

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s39
(1) If a person pleads guilty to, or is found guilty of, an offence other than murder, manslaughter or an offence under section 25A of theCrimes Act 1900) the court must make an ADVO for the protection of the person against whom the offence was committed

(2) However, the court need not make an apprehended violence order if it is satisfied that it is not required

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s 8 --> Outlines the meaning of stalking: following a person, watching, approaching property frequently, frequently in contact

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s7
(1) For the purposes of this Act, intimidation of a person means:

(a) conduct (including cyberbullying) amounting to harassment or molestation of the person, or

Note. An example of cyberbullying may be the bullying of a person by publication or transmission of offensive material over social media or via email.

(b) an approach made to the person by any means (including by telephone, telephone text messaging, e-mailing and other technologically assisted means) that causes the person to fear for his or her safety, or

(c) any conduct that causes a reasonable apprehension of injury to a person or to a person with whom he or she has a domestic relationship, or of violence or damage to any person or property.

(2) For the purpose of determining whether a person’s conduct amounts to intimidation, a court may have regard to any pattern of violence (especially violence constituting a domestic violence offence) in the person’s behaviour.

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Luke Batty was killed by his father.
Rosie Batty strong DV campaigner

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5A - carers and their dependents
(1) A person (a dependant) who has or has had a relationship with another person involving the person’s dependence on the ongoing paid care of the other person (a paid carer) is treated as having a domestic relationship with the paid carer only for the purposes of the protection of the dependant.

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ss5 and 5A --> broad definition of a domestic relationship
A domestic relationship includes: marriage, de facto, intimate personal relo, living with, dependent/paid carer

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s11 - meaning of domestic violence
(1) In this Act, domestic violence offence means an offence committed by a person against another person with whom the person who commits the offence has (or has had) a domestic relationship, being:

(a) a personal violence offence, or

(b) an offence (other than a personal violence offence) that arises from substantially the same circumstances as those from which a personal violence offence has arisen, or

(c) an offence (other than a personal violence offence) the commission of which is intended to coerce or control the person against whom it is committed or to cause that person to be intimidated or fearful (or both).