Prospective
(1)A court may make a domestic abuse protection order under this section in any of the cases set out below.
(2)The High Court or the family court may make a domestic abuse protection order against a person (“P”) in any family proceedings to which both P and the person for whose protection the order would be made are parties.
(3)Where a person (“P”) has been convicted of an offence, the court dealing with P for that offence may (as well as sentencing P or dealing with P in any other way) make a domestic abuse protection order against P.
(4)But subsection (3) does not apply where the Court of Appeal is dealing with a person for an offence.
(5)A court by or before which a person is acquitted of an offence may make a domestic abuse protection order against the person.
(6)Where the Crown Court allows a person's appeal against a conviction for an offence, the Crown Court may make a domestic abuse protection order against the person.
(7)The county court may make a domestic abuse protection order against a person (“P”) in any relevant proceedings to which both P and the person for whose protection the order would be made are parties.
(8)In subsection (7) “relevant proceedings” means proceedings of a description specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State.