858 The Protection Against Domestic Violence Bill, 2013 Mutual orders. 20. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the court, in the course of determining an application, from granting a protection order, in favour of the respondent even though no application has been made by the respondent. Contents of protection order. 21. (I) A protection order may direct that a respondent shall not do any one or more of the following(a) physically or sexually abuse or threaten to abuse the protected person; (b) damage, or threaten to damage, any property of the protected person; (c) engage, or threaten to engage, . in behaviour including intimidation or harassment, which amounts to psychological abuse of the protected person; (d) encourage any person to engage in behaviour against the protected person where the behaviour, if engaged in by the respondent would be prohibited by the order; (e) engage, or threaten to engage, in behaviour including intimidation, harassment or stalking which amounts , to emotional, verbal or psychological abuse of the protected person; (f) engage, or threaten to engage, in economic abuse of the protected person; or (g) engage, or threaten to engage, in cultural or customary rites or practices that abuse the protected person. (2) Without limiting the provisions of subsection (I) but subject to section 22, it shall be a condition of every protection order that at any time other than when the protected person and the respondent are, with the express consent of the protected person, living in the same dwelling house, the respondent shall not do any one or more of the following-

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