3(1)Section 5 (power of court to refuse application or stay proceedings) is amended as follows.E+W
(2)After subsection (2) (stay where more appropriate for matters to be determined in proceedings outside England and Wales) insert—
“(2A)If the proceedings on the application are proceedings in which a contact activity direction has been made under section 11A of the Children Act 1989 (or an enforcement order has been made under section 11J of that Act), the court may when granting a stay under or by virtue of subsection (2) also suspend the contact activity direction (or the enforcement order).”
(3)After subsection (3A) (removal of stay granted under Article 15) insert—
“(3B)If the stay removed under subsection (3) or (3A) is a stay in relation to which the court suspended a contact activity direction made under section 11A of the Children Act 1989 (or an enforcement order made under section 11J of that Act), the court may when removing the stay under subsection (3) or (3A) also bring the suspension to an end.”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 2 para. 3 in force at 8.12.2008 by S.I. 2008/2870, art. 2(2)(e)