New Zealand Acts

HARASSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 14

14 Applicant's involvement in proceedings where representative appointed

1 The fact that an application for a restraining order is made, on a person's behalf, by a representative appointed under section 13 does not prevent the person on whose behalf the application is made from being heard in the proceedings.

2 If—

a) a representative appointed under section 13 applies, on another person's behalf, for a restraining order; and

b) at any time before the application is determined, the other person objects to the continuation of the proceedings,—

then, unless the court is satisfied that the objection is not freely made, no further steps may be taken in the proceedings.

Note: 1995 No 86 s 12(4)–(5)