Care of Children Act 2004

74 Further provisions about warrants

• (1) The court may issue a warrant under section 72 or section 73 either on or after making a parenting order or an order for supervised contact.

  (2) Neither section 72 nor section 73 affects any other power—

  • (a) to enforce the role of providing day-to-day care for, or an order for contact with, a child; and

  • (b) that was exercisable by a court immediately before the commencement, on 1 January 1970, of the Guardianship Act 1968.

  (3) If a Family Court declines under section 72 or section 73 or in the exercise of a power to which subsection (2) relates to enforce the role of providing day-to-day care for, or an order for contact with, a child, it may, on its own initiative but subject to section 83(2) and (3), vary or discharge any existing order relating to that role or contact accordingly.

  Compare: 1968 No 63 ss 19(3), (6), 19A