Domestic Violence Act 2018

Application of section 9(2) of Family Home Protection Act 1976

13. (1) Where an application for a barring order or a safety order is made against the spouse of the applicant, subsection (2) of section 9 of the Act of 1976 shall apply—

(a) between the making of the application for the order and the determination of that application, and

(b) if that order is made, while that order is in force,

as it applies between the institution and final determination of matrimonial proceedings to which that section relates.

(2) The court which is empowered under subsection (2)(b) of section 9 of the Act of 1976 to grant permission for a disposition or removal of household chattels within the meaning of that section is, notwithstanding anything in section 10 of that Act, the court before which the proceedings, including proceedings for a barring order or a safety order, have been instituted.