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30.—(1) An authorised court may on the application of a person from whose actual custody a child has been removed in breach of Article 28 or 29 order the person who has so removed the child to return the child to the applicant.
(2) An authorised court may on the application of a person who has reasonable grounds for believing that another person is intending to remove a child from the applicant’s actual custody in breach of Article 28 or 29 by order direct that other person not to remove the child from the applicant’s custody in breach of that Article.
(3) If, in the case of an order made by the High Court under paragraph (1), the High Court or, in the case of an order made by a county court under paragraph (1), a county court is satisfied that the child has not been returned to the applicant, the court may make an order authorising a constable to search such premises as may be specified in the order for the child and, if a constable acting in pursuance of the order finds the child, to return the child to the applicant.
(4) If a justice of the peace is satisfied by complaint on oath that there are reasonable grounds for believing that a child to whom an order under paragraph (1) relates is in premises specified in the complaint, he may issue a search warrant authorising a constable to search the premises for the child, and if a constable acting in pursuance of the warrant finds the child, he shall return the child to the person on whose application the order under paragraph (1) was made.
(5) An order under paragraph (3) may be enforced in like manner as a warrant of commitment.
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