Section 41 VAPP 2015

Section 41 of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act 2015 is about Protection officers. It provides as follows:

(1) The appropriate Government Ministry shall appoint such number of protection
officers in each Area Council as it may consider necessary, to assist the Court in the discharge of its duties under this Act to co-ordinate the activities of the police and the accredited service providers in his or her Area Council to ensure that the victims or survivors of violence-

(a) have easy access to accredited service providers:

(b) have easy access to transportation to an alternative residence or a safe shelter, the nearest hospital or medical facility for treatment, if the complainant so requires;

(c) are able to collect their belongings or properties from a shared household or her residence, if the complainant so requires:

(d) are able to access the court for orders under this Act; or
(e) have access to every possible assistance in the service of interim protection order on the respondent, and the enforcement of any order that may have been made by the court under this Act.

(2) The protection officer may, upon the failure of the respondent to make payment ordered by the Court under this Act, direct an employer or a debtor of the respondent or any bank in which the respondent operates any account, to directly pay to the complainant or deposit with Court a portion of the wages or salaries or debt due to or accrued to the credit of respondent or monies in any bank account operated by the respondent, which amount may be adjusted towards the emergency monetary relief payable by the respondent.

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