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Article 1. (Organic Act 1/2004 of28 Decemberon Integrated Protection Measures against Gender Violence)
Purpose of the Act
1. The purpose of this Act is to combat the violence exercised against women by their present or former spouses or by men with whom they maintain or have maintained analogous affective relations, with or without cohabitation, as an expression of discrimination, the situationof inequality and the power relations prevailing between the sexes.
2. The present Act establishes integrated protection measures whose goal is to prevent, punish and eradicate this violence and lend assistance to its victims.
3. The gender violence to which this Act refers encompasses all acts of physical and psychological violence, including offences against sexual liberty, threats, coercion and the arbitrary deprivation of liberty."
Legal SourceOrganic Act 1/2004 of 28 December on Integrated Protection Measures against Gender Violence
Legal provisions on protection ordersLaw 27/2003, of 31 July, governing the Protection Order for Victims of Domestic Violence.
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Violence where the perpetrator and the victim have or have had an intimate relation.
ObservationsSpecial laws: Gross violation of women’s integrity: repeated violence within a marriage/love relation or other close relationship. If a person commits an offence falling under the provisions of chapters dealing with crimes against life and health, crimes against liberty and peace and sexual crimes against a partner with whom the offender has a close relationship or used to have a close relationship. Each of the acts must have been part of a repeated violation of the vulnerable person’s privacy and integrity and also have been likely to cause serious harm to the persons self-esteem
Legal SourceCriminal Code, Chapter 4, Section 4a
Legal provisions on protection ordersThe prohibition of Visits Act: “if there is a risk that a person will commit a crime against another, or that he will maliciously follow a person, a restraining order can be issued against them.”
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Any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse (psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional) between adults who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sexuality.
Legal SourceThe Domestic Violence (Crime and Victims) Act 2004 (strengthens protection orders by making breach of an order a criminal offence and, by virtue of Section 12 of the Act, extended the powers of courts to impose orders on perpetrators under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, regardless of any conviction for an offence)
Legal provisions on protection ordersDomestic Violence Protection Notice and Domestic Violence Prevention Order
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