This Part contains provisions about programmes and prescribed services, including provisions indicating that—
assessors and service providers may be approved to provide non-violence programmes or prescribed services (see section 212):
an assessor or service provider must notify the Registrar and the Police of any safety concerns (see section 185):
if the court makes a protection order, the applicant, or the applicant’s representative, can request a safety programme be provided to the applicant, a child of the applicant’s family, or a specified person (see section 187):
the court, on making a protection order, must direct the respondent to undertake assessment for, and attend, a non-violence programme (see section 188):
the court, on making a protection order, may direct the respondent to undertake an assessment for prescribed services, and to engage with any prescribed standard service, provided by a service provider, that an assessor has determined may be appropriate for and may benefit the respondent (see section 188):
the court may direct and require the respondent to engage with a prescribed non-standard service if the assessor has determined that the service may be appropriate for and may benefit the respondent (see section 198):
in general, information provided to an assessor or service provider must not be admitted as evidence (see section 205):
failure to comply with a direction is a criminal offence punishable on conviction by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or a term of imprisonment not exceeding 6 months (see section 211).