Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023

Copies of orders to be given to certain persons

35. (1) The court, on making, varying or discharging an order under section 28 , shall cause a copy of its order under section 28 , 29 or 30 , as the case may be, to be given or sent as soon as practicable—

(a) to the applicant,

(b) to the respondent,

(c) where an application has been made by a member of the Garda Síochána acting in accordance with section 31 , to that member,

(d) to the member of the Garda Síochána in charge of the Garda Síochána station for the area in which the person, for whose benefit the order is made, resides,

(e) where the order in question is a variation or discharge of an order and the person for whose benefit the order was made had previously resided elsewhere, to the member of the Garda Síochána in charge of the Garda Síochána station for the area in which that person had so resided, but only if that member had previously been sent under this subsection a copy of that order, or any order relating thereto, and

(f) insofar as is reasonably practicable, where the order in question prohibits or restricts the respondent from approaching a specified place, to the member of the Garda Síochána in charge of the Garda Síochána station for the area in which the specified place is situated.

(2) The validity of an order to which this section relates shall not be affected by non-compliance with subsection (1).