SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12 Minor Amendments

The Child Abduction Act 1984 (c. 37)

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1

The Schedule to that Act (modifications of section 1 for children in certain cases) shall be amended as follows.

2

In paragraph 1(1) for the words “or voluntary organisation" there shall be substituted “ within the meaning of the Children Act 1989" ”.

3

For paragraph 2(1) there shall be substituted—

1

This paragraph applies in the case of a child who is—

a

detained in a place of safety under section 16(3) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969; or

b

remanded to local authority accommodation under section 23 of that Act.

4

In paragraph 3(1)—

a

in paragraph (a) for the words “section 14 of the Children Act 1975" there shall be substituted “ section 18 of the Adoption Act 1976" ”; and

b

in paragraph (d) for the words “section 25 of the Children Act 1975 or section 53 of the Adoption Act 1958" there shall be substituted “ section 55 of the Adoption Act 1976" ”.

5

In paragraph 3(2)(a)—

a

in sub-paragraph (i), for the words from “order or," to “Children Act 1975" there shall be substituted “ section 18 order or, if the section 18 order has been varied under section 21 of that Act so as to give parental responsibility to another agency" ”, and

b

in sub-paragraph (ii), for the words “(c) or (e)" there shall be substituted “ or (c)" ”.

6

At the end of paragraph 3 there shall be added—

3

Sub-paragraph (2) above shall be construed as if the references to the court included, in any case where the court is a magistrates’ court, a reference to any magistrates’ court acting for the same area as that court

7

For paragraph 5 there shall be substituted—

5

In this Schedule—

a

“adoption agency” and “adoption order” have the same meaning as in the Adoption Act 1976; and

b

“area”, in relation to a magistrates’ court, means the petty sessions area (within the meaning of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979) for which the court is appointed.