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Breaching Intervention Orders Report Released

The Sentencing Advisory Council today released a report on the maximum penalties for offences relating to breaching intervention orders.

This reference is part of a much larger effort to address the problem of family violence in Victoria. In requesting advice from Council, the Attorney-General advised of the Government’s commitment to “introducing a new Family Violence Bill that will differentiate between family violence intervention orders and stalking intervention orders”.

The Council were asked by the Attorney-General to provide advice on the appropriate maximum penalty for:

• breach of a family violence intervention order
• breach of a stalking intervention order, and
• breach of a police-issued family violence safety notice.

We have recommended that each of these offences should have the same maximum penalty of two years’ imprisonment.

Today’s release coincides with the introduction of the Family Violence Bill into Parliament, which among many other initiatives, implements the recommendations made in the Sentencing Advisory Council report.

The report is now available for download from this website.