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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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