Domestic Violence Act 1995

88 Copies of orders to be sent to Police

• (1) On the making of a temporary order or a final order under this Act (including any order varying or discharging an order made under this Act or any order made in substitution for any such order), the Registrar of the court in which the order is made must ensure that a copy of the order is made available, without delay, to the District Commander at the appropriate Police District Headquarters.

  (2) Where a copy of an order is made available to a District Commander in accordance with subsection (1), the District Commander must ensure that a copy of that order, or a copy of that copy, is made available, without delay, to the officer in charge of the Police station nearest to where the protected person or, as the case requires, each protected person, resides.

  (3) For the purposes of this section, a copy of an order, or a copy of a copy of an order, may be made available in any of the following ways:

  • (a) by sending the copy by means of electronic transmission (whether by way of facsimile transmission, electronic mail, or other similar means of communication):

  • (b) by entering the copy on a database maintained in electronic form, where that database may be accessed by the person or persons to whom the copy is required to be made available:

  • (c) by making the copy available in such manner as is prescribed by regulations made under this Act:

  • (d) by making the copy available in such other manner as is appropriate in the circumstances.