Power to make Protection Order and other Orders

(1) Where, on an application made by a person described in section 3 of this Act, the Court determines, on a balance of probabilities, that domestic violence has occurred, it may issue a Protection Order and any other Order described in section 3 (7) of the Act, containing any or all of the prohibitions and directions set out in section 5 of the Act. (2) The Court shall grant a Protection Order and any other Order described in section 3 (7) of this Act, where it is satisfied that the respondent– (a) is engaging in, or has engaged in, domestic violence against a person specified in the (b) has engaged in domestic violence against a person and, unless restrained, is likely to engage in further conduct that would constitute domestic violence; or 15 (c) has threatened to engage in conduct that would constitute domestic violence and, unless the respondent is restrained, the respondent is likely to engage in conduct that would constitute that, or another domestic violence offence, and in either case, having regard to all the circumstances of the case the Order is necessary for the protection of the applicant or any other person specified in the application, or is in the best interests of a child.