On 18/06/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 18/06/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 18/06/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 28/03/2013.
66.
—(1) Where, upon an application for a protection order under section 65, the court is satisfied that there is imminent danger of family violence being committed against the applicant, the court may make the protection order notwithstanding —
(a)
that the summons has not been served on the respondent or has not been served on the respondent within a reasonable time before the hearing of the application; or
(b)
that the summons requires the respondent to appear at some time or place.
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(2) An expedited order shall not take effect until the date on which notice of the making of the order is served on the respondent in such manner as may be prescribed or, if the court has specified a later date as the date on which the order is to take effect, that later date, and an expedited order shall cease to have effect on whichever of the following dates occurs first:
(a)
the date of the expiration of a period of 28 days beginning with the date of the making of the order; or
(b)
the date of commencement of the hearing of the application for an order under this section.
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(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), the court may extend the duration of the expedited order.
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