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Versions of s. 2(1), definition “family violence”

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Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2021-03-01 to present available View Source

    family violence means any conduct, whether or not the conduct constitutes a criminal offence, by a family member towards another family member, that is violent or threatening or that constitutes a pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour or that causes that other family member to fear for their own safety or for that of another person — and in the case of a child, the direct or indirect exposure to such conduct — and includes