Part 3: Powers for dealing with domestic abuse Section 25: Further requirements in relation to notices
Subsection (2) sets out the details that must be specified in a DAPN, which include the grounds for issuing the DAPN; the fact that a power of arrest attaches to the DAPN; the fact that the police will make an application for a DAPO which will be heard in a magistrates’ court within a 48 hour period (excluding Sundays and bank holidays); the fact that the DAPN will continue to be in effect until the DAPO application is determined; and the provisions that may be included in a subsequent DAPO.
	A DAPN must be in writing and served on a perpetrator personally by a constable (subsections (1) and (3)).
	Subsection (4) requires the constable serving a DAPN to ask the perpetrator to supply an address in order to enable the perpetrator to be given notice of the hearing for the DAPO application.
	Subsections (5) to (7) provide that where a DAPN is served on a member of the armed forces (in practice, this is likely to be by the Ministry of Defence Police), and the notice prohibits the perpetrator from entering, or requiring them to leave, service accommodation, the senior officer giving the notice must make reasonable efforts to inform the perpetrator’s commanding officer that the DAPN has been issued. The definition of service accommodation in the Armed Forces Act 2006 includes any building or part of a building which is occupied for the purposes of any of Her Majesty's forces but is provided for the exclusive use of a person subject to service law, or of such a person and members of his or her family, as living accommodation.