An aggreived person (or Applicant) can apply to the Magistrates Court to have a Domestic Violence Order (Protection Order or DVO) that was made interstate, registered in Queensland.

If you are the respondent to the original order, you do not need to be given notice of the applicatoin to register the interstate Order and the Court may hear and decide the application without your presence. You will only be given notice of the rgistration of the interstate order, if the aggrieved person has consented in writing.

A registered interstate order is registered for the period the original order is in force, has the same effect as a Domestic Violence Order and may be enforced as if it were a Domestic Violence Order.

A registered interstate order that can be adapted, modified or varied and is enforceable in Queensland without notice of the adaptation, modification or variation being given to the respondent.