SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6 Amendments of Children Act 1989

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In section 39 of the M1Children Act 1989 (discharge and variation etc. of care orders and supervision orders) after subsection (3) insert—

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On the application of a person who is not entitled to apply for the order to be discharged, but who is a person to whom an exclusion requirement contained in the order applies, an interim care order may be varied or discharged by the court in so far as it imposes the exclusion requirement.

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Where a power of arrest has been attached to an exclusion requirement of an interim care order, the court may, on the application of any person entitled to apply for the discharge of the order so far as it imposes the exclusion requirement, vary or discharge the order in so far as it confers a power of arrest (whether or not any application has been made to vary or discharge any other provision of the order).