by avatar123 » Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:55 am
I believe the order requires you to take all reasonable measures to avoid contact with the other person. The burden for this is placed on you, and not on them. Therefore you should not go or be at places the other person is known or likely to be.
If the place is sufficiently public that you could not know or expect you'd encounter them there, then the convention is that you ignore them completely, as if neither of you was there. If that is not possible, due to proximity or some requirement to interact, then the convention is that you withdraw.
For your road question, it would hinge on the public status above: could you expect to encounter them on that road? If the road is a major thoroughfare with other traffic of which you are a random part, there would not be a problem as long as you completely ignore them if an encounter occurs.
If the road is a side street or residential block, that should be avoidable, unless you live on that same block. In that case the completely ignore convention would have to be strictly observed. Even making eye contact, if it occurs regularly and repeatedly, could be construed as a reason for further complaint. Then it depends on how strictly the order will be enforced by the authorities.
Sometimes one person (could be from either side) will try to cause problems for the other, by using the order as a means of retaliation, or to make a point. Obviously you shouldn't participate in anything like that. If you feel that's being done to you, it's best to talk to the police and assure them you're doing everything you can to obey the order.