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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Discharge and miscellaneous orders - Protection orders

123CC: Assessors and service providers for section 123CA

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"People who help with protection orders and safety programmes"

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When you are dealing with protection orders, there are certain assessors and service providers who can help. They provide things like safety programmes for people who are protected, and assessments and programmes for offenders. You can find out more about safety programmes in section 187 of the Family Violence Act 2018.

These assessors and service providers can also do assessments of offenders, as directed under section 188(1)(a) or (3)(a) of the Family Violence Act 2018. They can provide non-violence programmes to offenders, as directed under section 188(1)(b) of the Family Violence Act 2018. They can also provide standard and non-standard services to offenders, as directed under section 188(3)(b) and section 198 of the Family Violence Act 2018.

You can find out more about these services and who provides them in relation to section 123CA.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Discharge and miscellaneous orders: Protection orders

123CCAssessors and service providers for section 123CA

  1. For the purposes of section 123CA, the relevant assessors and service providers include any undertaking or providing all or any of the following assessments, programmes, or services:

  2. a safety programme to a protected person (under section 187 of the Family Violence Act 2018, as applied by section 123C(1)(i)):
    1. an assessment undertaken of the offender (under a direction made under section 188(1)(a) or (3)(a) of the Family Violence Act 2018):
      1. a non-violence programme to the offender (under a direction made under section 188(1)(b) of the Family Violence Act 2018):
        1. a prescribed standard service to the offender (under a direction made under section 188(3)(b) of the Family Violence Act 2018, as so applied):
          1. a prescribed non-standard service to the offender (under a direction made under section 198 of the Family Violence Act 2018, as so applied).

            Notes
            • Section 123CC: inserted, on , by section 65 of the Family Violence (Amendments) Act 2018 (2018 No 47).