Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered ActsThe main purposes of this Act are—
(a) to amend the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 —
(i) to require the court to make a family violence intervention order for a child if the court makes an order for an affected family member; and
(ii) to amend requirements for explaining family violence intervention orders; and
(iii) to provide for a court to order alternative service; and
(iv) to extend the maximum duration of family violence safety notices; and
(v) to make other miscellaneous amendments to that Act; and
(b) to amend the Coroners Act 2008 —
(i) to establish the Victorian Systemic Review of Family Violence Deaths unit and to provide for its objectives and functions; and
(ii) to enable the Coroners Court to include information relating to family violence intervention orders or recognised domestic violence orders in its published findings, recommendations and reports; and
(c) to amend the County Court Act 1958 and the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 to give the Koori Court Division of each of those courts jurisdiction in relation to certain family violence matters; and
(d) to amend the Crimes Act 1958 to provide that a prosecution for a certain offence must not be commenced without the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions; and
(e) to amend the Criminal Procedure
Act 2009 to provide for the use of recorded evidence-in-chief by certain
witnesses in certain criminal proceedings; and
(f) to amend the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 in relation to the inclusion of family violence measures in municipal public health and wellbeing plans; and
(g) to repeal the Family Violence Protection Amendment Act 2014 ; and
(h) to make consequential amendments relating to the National Domestic Violence Order Scheme Act 2016 .