RTA · Protection Against Family Violence Act
3 Confirmation of emergency protection order
grants an emergency protection order, the justice or justice of the
peace must, immediately after granting the order, forward to the
Court of King's Bench a copy of the order and all supporting
documentation, including any notes.
(2) Repealed 2011 c4 s4.
(3) At a hearing referred to in section 2(6), the justice of the Court
of King's Bench
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(a) must consider all the evidence that was before the justice of
the Court of Justice or justice of the peace who made the
order under section 2, and
(b) may allow additional evidence to be presented.
(4) At the hearing, the justice of the Court of King's Bench may,
whether or not the claimant or the respondent is in attendance,
(a) revoke the order,
(b) direct that an oral hearing be held,
(c) confirm the order, in which case the order becomes an order
of the Court of King's Bench, or
(d) revoke the order and gran t an order under section 4.
RSA 2000 cP-27 s3;2008 c 32 s24;2011 c4 s4;AR 217/2022;
AR 75/2023