HL Deb 08 November 1989 vol 512 c763

102 Clause 29, page 24, line 40, leave out `by a care order'.

103 Page 24, line 43, leave out 'and'.

104 Page 24, line 46, at end insert 'and — (d) where, immediately before the care order was made, a person had care of the child by virtue of an order made in the exercise of the High Court's inherent jurisdiction with respect to children, that person.'

105 Page 25, line 1, leave out from `by' to 'authority' in line 29 and insert 'the authority or the child, the court may make such order as it considers appropriate with respect to the contact which is to be allowed between the child and any named person.

(2A) On an application made by —

  1. (a) any person mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (1); or
  2. (b) any person who has obtained the leave of the court to make the application,
the court may make such order as it considers appropriate with respect to the contact which is to be allowed between the child and that person.

(2B) On an application made by the authority or the child, the court may make an order authorising the authority to refuse to allow contact between the child and any person who is mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (1) and named in the order.

(2C) When making a care order with respect to a child, or in any family proceedings in connection with a child who is in the care of a local authoity, the court may make an order under this section, even though no application for such an order has been made with respect to the child, if it considers that the order should be made.

(2D) An'.

106 Page 25, line 30, after `(1)', insert 'or an order under this section'.

107 Page 25, line 36, leave out 'subsection (2) and (4)' and insert `this section'.

108 Page 25, line 40, leave out '(6)' and insert `(2D)'.

109 Page 25, leave out lines 42 and 43 and insert 'terms of any order under this section may be departed from by agreement between the local authority and the person in relation to whom the order is made'.

110 Page 26, leave out lines 6 to 17 and insert 'on the application of the authority, the child concerned or the person named in the order'.

The Lord Chancellor

My Lords, I have spoken to Amendment No. 102 with Amendment No. 24. I have also spoken to Amendments Nos. 103 to 110 with Amendment No. 101. I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 102 to 110.

Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in the said amendments. —(The Lord Chancellor.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.