Section 20Part 3 — INVESTIGATION OF STALKING COMPLAINTS AND CONDUCT OF PROCEEDINGS
Vexatious proceedings
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A court may dismiss any proceedings instituted under this Law if it is satisfied that those proceedings are frivolous, vexatious or an abuse of the process of the court.
If a court is satisfied that a person has persistently instituted vexatious proceedings under this Law, whether against the same person or against different persons, the court may make an order prohibiting that person from commencing any further proceedings or proceedings of any specified kind against any specified person, without the leave of the court.
A court shall not make an order under subsection (2) without giving that person an opportunity to be heard.
Nothing in this section applies in respect of criminal proceedings.
Nothing in this section limits any other power of the court to dismiss proceedings.
A person who, in the opinion of the court, knowingly or wilfully makes a false, vexatious or frivolous complaint against another person for an alleged contravention of any provision of this Law commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars or imprisonment for a term of one year or both.