Family Law (Protection of Spouses and Children) Act, 1981

Taking effect of orders.

4.—(1) A barring order or a protection order shall take effect on notification of its making being given to the respondent spouse.

(2) Oral communication to the respondent spouse by or on behalf of the applicant spouse of the fact that a barring order or a protection order has been made, together with production of a copy of the order, shall, without prejudice to the sufficiency of any other form of notification, be taken to be sufficient notification to the respondent spouse of the making of the order.

(3) If the respondent spouse is present at the sitting of the Court at which the barring order or protection order is made, that spouse shall be taken, for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, to have been notified of its making.

(4) An order varying a barring order shall take effect on notification of its making being given to the spouse other than the spouse who applied for the variation, and for this purpose subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall apply with the necessary modifications.