New Zealand Acts

HARASSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 23

23 Power to discharge restraining order

1 The court may, if it thinks fit, on the application of the applicant or the respondent, discharge a restraining order.

2 On an application under subsection (1), the court may discharge a restraining order even though the order applies against an associated respondent under a direction made under section 18 .

3 Where a restraining order to which subsection (2) relates is discharged, the order ceases to have effect against the associated respondent as if that person had applied for and been granted a discharge of the order under subsection (4).

4 Where a restraining order applies against an associated respondent under a direction made under section 18 , the associated respondent may apply for the order to be discharged in so far as it relates to him or her.

5 On an application under subsection (4), the court may, if it thinks fit, discharge a restraining order in so far as it relates to the associated respondent.

Note: 1995 No 86 s 47