Checklist · Family Violence & Protection Orders
Register of protection orders: making, service and expiry (NSW)
Register of each apprehended violence order on the file: the period written on the order, service or presence, and, for an APVO that states no period, the 12-month default in section 79.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- Australia, New South Wales
- AI use
- Green The tool writes the first draft inside a template you have already tested. You check it. Without that test, first drafting starts at Yellow.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Australia and New South Wales.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when an order is made, served, varied or about to expire, and keep it current for the life of the order. Read the period off the order. Do not calculate an ADVO expiry from section 79.
Used for these tasks
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may enter the date, the period and the service detail as they appear on the order and the affidavit of service. It does not calculate an expiry that is not written down.
AI may
- Copy the order date, the period specified, and the names from the order into a row
- Copy the service date from an affidavit of service
- For an APVO that specifies no period, enter 12 months from the date the order was made and mark the row as using s 79(3)
AI must not
- Must not apply section 79 to an apprehended domestic violence order
- Must not invent an expiry date for an ADVO
- Must not decide that service was effective
The lawyer checks
- Each ADVO expiry is the period stated on that order, checked against the duration provision for domestic orders, which is not section 79
- An APVO with no period is given 12 months under s 79(3), and the lawyer has confirmed the order is a personal violence order
- Section 79 is subject to section 73 (variation or revocation). A variation is a new row, not an overwrite
- Service or presence is recorded because s 14(2) makes it an element of a contravention offence
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- Application for a protection order (Queensland Form DV01)
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- Letter of advice to a protected person: what the apprehended violence order means and what to do next (NSW)
- Contravention worksheet: which limb of section 14, if any (NSW AVO)
- Application to vary, revoke or extend an apprehended violence order: completion guide and checklist (NSW)
- Application to vary a domestic violence order (Queensland Form DV04)
- Intervention order (CourtSA originating application, Form 1OS and Form 7A or 7B): completion guide
- Family violence intervention order application (Victoria, FVIO1 or online): completion guide
- Application to vary a recognised interstate order (Queensland Form DV04A)
- Family violence order or restraint order (Magistrates Court of Tasmania): completion guide
- National Domestic Violence Order Scheme checklist: recognition, enforcement and variation of interstate and foreign orders
- Notice of Child Abuse, Family Violence or Risk (Federal Circuit and Family Court): completion guide
- Personal cross-examination ban: section 102NA checklist and the Commonwealth scheme
- Client safe-contact instructions and consent form (family violence matters)
- Family violence order (ACT Magistrates Court application): completion guide
- Application for court review of a police protection direction (Queensland Form DV59A)
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- Application for a domestic violence order (NT Local Court publication PD 5A): completion guide
- Application to vary or revoke an intervention order (Queensland Form DV09)
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- Firm protocol: using AI in family violence matters (address protection and client safety)
- Application for a declaration that a domestic violence order is a recognised interstate order (Queensland Form DV35)
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