Domestic Abuse Bill 2020: factsheets
These factsheets provide more information about each of the provisions in the bill.
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Linked documents
- Explanatory Note Domestic Abuse Act 2021: overarching factsheet
- Explanatory Note Statutory definition of domestic abuse factsheet
- Explanatory Note Domestic Abuse Commissioner factsheet
- Explanatory Note Domestic Abuse Protection Notices / Orders factsheet
- Explanatory Note Extraterritorial jurisdiction factsheet
- Explanatory Note Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme factsheet
- Explanatory Note Cross-examination in family proceedings factsheet
- Explanatory Note Mandatory polygraph tests factsheet
- Explanatory Note Special measures in the criminal courts factsheet
- Explanatory Note Secure tenancies and victims of domestic abuse factsheet
- Explanatory Note Local authority support for victims of domestic abuse and their children within safe accommodation factsheet
- Explanatory Note Special measures in civil proceedings
- Explanatory Note Special measures in family proceedings
- Explanatory Note Cross examination in civil proceedings
- Explanatory Note Homelessness
- Explanatory Note Consent to serious harm for sexual gratification not a defence
- Explanatory Note Prohibition on charging for the provision of medical evidence of domestic abuse
- Explanatory Note Tackling perpetrators
- Explanatory Note Amendment to the controlling or coercive behaviour offence
- Explanatory Note Section 91(14) barring orders
- Explanatory Note Strangulation and suffocation
- Explanatory Note Threats to disclose private sexual photographs and films
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The factsheets contain details on the measures in the Domestic Abuse Bill 2020. They explain why they are needed and what impact they will have.
Documents for the 2019 version of the Domestic Abuse Bill can be found on the National Archives website.