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Reprint as at 18 May 2009 Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 Public Act Date of assent Commencement 2008 No 77 16 September 2008 see section 2 Contents Title Commencement Principal Act amended Interpretation Court may impose special conditions New section 28A inserted 28A Notice of absence from programme Programme provider may request variation of direction New section 41A inserted Costs of formal supervised contact Page 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 Note Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This Act is administered by the Ministry of Justice.
1 Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 Reprinted as at 18 May 2009 s 1 10 11 12 13 41A Powers of Registrar on receipt of notice under section 39 or 41 Judge may call respondent or associated respondent before Court New section 42A inserted 42A Respondent or associated respondent called before Court Conduct of proceedings New section 125 substituted 125 Restriction of publication of reports of proceedings 14 Regulations 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: 1 2 (1) Title This Act is the Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008.
Commencement This Act comes into force on a date to be appointed by the Governor­General by Order in Council.

(2) One or more Orders in Council may be made appointing different dates for the commencement of different provisions and for different purposes.

Section 2: Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 (except sections 4–6 and 14) brought into force, on 18 May 2009, by the Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 Commencement Order 2009 (SR 2009/80).
Principal Act amended This Act amends the Domestic Violence Act 1995.
Interpretation Section 2 is amended by inserting the following deﬁnitions in their appropriate alphabetical order: “approved provider has the meaning given to it by section 58 of the Care of Children Act 2004 “contact has the meaning given to it by section 8 of the Care of Children Act 2004 3 4 2 Reprinted as at 18 May 2009 Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 s 6 “supervised contact has the meaning given to it by section 58 of the Care of Children Act 2004”.
5 Court may impose special conditions Section 27 is amended by repealing subsection (2) and substituting the following subsections: “(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a condition imposed under that subsection may relate to either or both of the following matters: “(a) the manner in which the respondent or the associated respondent, or both, are to have contact with a child, and any arrangements necessary to facilitate that manner of contact: the manner and circumstances in which the respondent or the associated respondent, or both, may make contact with any other protected person.
“(b) “(2A) Where a condition imposed under subsection (1) relating to the matter set out in subsection (2)(a) requires the contact between a child and either the respondent or the associated respondent, or both, to be supervised contact, the Court must specify in the order whether the supervised contact is to occur— “(a) “(b) under the supervision of an approved provider; or in the immediate presence of a person approved by the Court (for example, a relative, a friend of the family of the child, or any other person whom the Court considers suitable).” 6 New section 28A inserted The following section is inserted after section 28: “28A Costs of formal supervised contact “(1) This section applies only to a supervised contact that— “(a) “(b) is imposed as a condition of a protection order under section 27(1); and is supervised by an approved provider.
“(2) The number of sessions of the contact that will be funded out of public money must be determined in accordance with regulations made under section 127(aa) or, in the absence of regulations of that kind, by the Registrar or the Court.
3 s 7 Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 Reprinted as at 18 May 2009 “(3) Fees in respect of the contact— “(a) must be determined in accordance with regulations made under section 127(ab) or, in the absence of regulations of that kind, by the Registrar or the Court; and are payable out of public money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose.” “(b) 7 8 9 Notice of absence from programme Section 39(2) is repealed.

Programme provider may request variation of direction Section 41(2) is repealed.
New section 41A inserted The following section is inserted after section 41: “41A Powers of Registrar on receipt of notice under section 39 or 41 “(1) On receiving a notice under section 39 or 41, the Registrar must, without delay, either— “(a) exercise the powers under section 82, as if he or she were the Court referred to in that section, to call the respondent or, as the case may be, the associated respondent before the Court; or “(b) bring the matter to the attention of a Judge so that the Judge may consider whether to exercise the power conferred by section 42 in relation to the respondent or, as the case may be, the associated respondent.
“(2) Where the Registrar exercises the powers under section 82 in the manner allowed by subsection (1)(a) then, subject to any regulations made under this Act, section 82 applies so far as applicable and with the necessary modiﬁcations as if the respondent or, as the case may be, the associated respondent, were a witness in the proceedings.” 4 Reprinted as at 18 May 2009 Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 s 12 10 (1) (2) 11 Judge may call respondent or associated respondent before Court Section 42(1)(b) is amended by omitting “section 39(2) or section 41(2) of this Act” and substituting “section 41A(1)(b)”.
Section 42(2) to (5) are repealed.

New section 42A inserted The following section is inserted after section 42: “42A Respondent or associated respondent called before Court “(1) Where a respondent or an associated respondent appears before the Court under section 41A(1)(a) or section 42, the Court may, after hearing the respondent or the associated respondent, conﬁrm, vary, or discharge the direction.
“(2) The Court may not vary or discharge a direction conﬁrmed or varied under section 37 unless a variation of that direction has been requested under section 41.

“(3) Where the Court conﬁrms or varies a direction under subsection (1) and the respondent or, as the case may be, the associated respondent is before the Court, the Judge must warn him or her that non­compliance with the direction is an offence punishable by imprisonment.
“(4) Failure to give the warning required by subsection (3) does not affect the validity of the direction conﬁrmed or varied.” 12 (1) (2) (3) Conduct of proceedings Section 83(1) is amended by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (f): “(fa) accredited news media reporters:”.

Section 83(3) is amended by inserting “and any accredited news media reporter” after “witness”.
Section 83 is amended by repealing subsection (5) and substituting the following subsection: “(5) Nothing in this section limits any other power of the Court— “(a) “(b) “(c) to hear proceedings in private; or to permit a McKenzie friend to be present; or to exclude any person from the Court.” 5 s 13 13 Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 Reprinted as at 18 May 2009 New section 125 substituted Section 125 is repealed and the following section substituted: “125 Restriction of publication of reports of proceedings Sections 11B to 11D of the Family Courts Act 1980 apply to the publication of a report of any proceedings under this Act (other than criminal proceedings)— “(a) “(b) in a Family Court: in any other court, in which case references in those sections to the Family Court or Court must be read as references to that other court.” Regulations Section 127 is amended by inserting the following paragraphs after paragraph (a): “(aa) providing for the determination, for the purposes of section 28A(2), of the number of sessions of supervised contact (imposed as a condition of a protection order under section 27(1), and supervised by an approved provider) that will be funded out of public money: “(ab) providing for the determination, for the purposes of section 28A(3), of the amount of fees and expenses, including minimum and maximum amounts, payable to approved providers in respect of supervised contact carried out as a condition of a protection order imposed under section 27(1), which fees and expenses may differ— “(i) sessions of according to the number of supervised contact determined to be carried out under section 28A(2); and according to whether supervised contact is to be carried out in a speciﬁed number of proceedings during a speciﬁed period:”.
“(ii) 14 6 Reprinted as at 18 May 2009 Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 Notes Contents 1 2 3 4 General Status of reprints How reprints are prepared Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent ﬁrst) 5 Notes 1 2 3 General This is a reprint of the Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008.
The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the Act as at 18 May 2009, as speciﬁed in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that have yet to come into force or that contain relevant transitional or savings provisions are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order.
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7 Notes Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 Reprinted as at 18 May 2009 see For a detailed list of http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/legislation/reprints.shtml or Part 8 of the Tables of Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations, and Deemed Regulations in Force.
the editorial conventions, Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice.

Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.
A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000.

Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing.

To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reﬂects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.
In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint: • omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”) typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point) layout of provisions, including: • • indentation position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section) format of deﬁnitions (eg, the deﬁned term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks) format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”) • • • • 4 8 Reprinted as at 18 May 2009 Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 Notes • • • • • • • position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act) punctuation (eg, colons are not used after deﬁnitions) Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross­references are changed accordingly case and appearance of letters and words, including: • followed by small capital format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the ﬁrst word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter) small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters • schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross­references are changed accordingly running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page) format of amendments, and schedules of are rearranged into alphabetical order, chronological).
two­column schedules of consequential they rather than repeals (eg, List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent ﬁrst) Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2008 Commencement Order 2009 (SR 2009/80) 5 12 Wellington, New Zealand: Published under the authority of the New Zealand Government—2009 9