Prevention of Domestic Violence Act (No. 34 of 2005)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Prohibitions that of an Interim Order or Protection Order may contain

11.

(1) The Court , by means of an Interim Order protection Order prohibit the respondent from :-

	(a) entering a residence or any specified part thereof, shared by the aggrieved person and the respondent;

(b) entering the aggrieved person's -

(i) residence;

(ii) place of employment;

(iii) school;

	(c) entering any shelter in which the aggrieved person may be temporarily accommodated;

	(d) preventing the aggrieved person who ordinarily lives or has lived in a shared residence from entering or remaining in the shared residence or a specified part of the shared residence;

	(e) occupying the shared residence ;

	(f) having contact with any child of the aggrieved person or having contact with such child other than on the satisfaction of such conditions as it may consider appropriate, where the Court is satisfied that it is in the best interest of such child ;

	(g) preventing the aggrieved person from using or having access to shared resources ;

	(h) contacting or attempting to establish contact with the aggrieved person in any manner whatsoever ;

	(i) committing acts of violence against any other person, whether it be a relative, friend, social worker or medical officer, who may be assisting the aggrieved person ;

	(j) following the aggrieved person around as to cause a nuisance ;

	(k) engaging in such other conduct as in the opinion of the Court will be detrimental to the safety, health or well being of the aggrieved person or other person who may require protection from the respondent as the Court may specify in the Protection Order ;

	(l) selling, transferring, alienating or encumbering the matrimonial home so as to place the aggrieved person in a destitute position.

(2) In imposing any prohibition referred to in subsection (1) the Court shall have regard to -

	(a) the need for the accommodation of the aggrieved person or the children (if any) of the aggrieved person and the children (if any) of the respondent;

	(b) any hardship that may be caused to the respondent or to any other person as a result of the making of the Order.