HC Deb 19 May 1978 vol 950 cc1066-7

Amendments made: No. 66, in page 83, line 20, leave out 'and'.

No. 67, in line 28, at end insert: '(c) where the order contains a provision for the legal custody of a child, the court shall have power, in a complaint made by a grandparent of the child, to vary that order under the said section 8 by the addition to the order of a provision requiring access to the child to be given to that grandparent; (d) where the court by virtue of paragraph (c) above, varies the order by the addition of a provision requiring access to a child to be given to a grandparent, the court shall have power to vary or revoke that provision on a complaint made—

  1. (i) by that grandparent, or
  2. (ii) by either party to the marriage in question, or
  3. (iii) where the child is not a child of both the parties to the marriage, by any person who though not a party to the marriage is a parent of the child, or
  4. (iv) where under the order a child is for the time being committed to the legal custody of some person other than one of the parents or a party to the marriage, by the person to whose legal custody the child is committed by the order.'.—[Mr. John.]

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