Explanatory Notes

Children and Adoption Act 2006

2006 CHAPTER 20

21 June 2006

Commentary on Sections and Schedules

Part 1 - Orders with respect to children in family proceedings

Section 3 - Contact orders: warning notices

29.Section 3 inserts new section 11I into the 1989 Act, which provides that whenever a court makes or varies a contact order, it must attach a notice warning of the consequences of failing to comply with a contact order. (The consequences of failure to comply may be an enforcement order, an order for financial compensation, or the use of the courts’ existing sanctions for contempt.)