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Section 36. Other laws still apply
Comment: This basically means that provisions of DV Act cannot override any other law in force. As we saw earlier, it is clearly given in various provisions of DV Act that a woman can claim both maintenance and other reliefs under DV Act even if she has similar reliefs ordered under other laws. So the importance of this provision is that it makes the DV Act as mainly a tool to get reliefs for a woman. For substantial and permanent reliefs like getting an actual decree of divorce based on alleged cruelty by husband, or getting permanent custody of child, etc; a woman will have to file a complaint under the personal laws. So DV Act is a nice Swiss army knife made for women to get quick reliefs, while they keep open the possibility of using bigger legal weapons in future using the existing personal/family laws.
Section 37. DV Rules
This section is about the process, procedures, and various actors (protection officer, service provider) who carry out the provisions of the DV Act before it reaches the magistrate, format of various forms like DIR (domestic incidence report), and also help with enforcing of the protection order.
The full section is given below for completeness. The DV Rules are given in Appendix C so one can refer to them for details about the procedures to be followed in filing of DIR etc.
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