Care of Children Act 2004

84 Variation or discharge of registered overseas parenting order

• (1) If a court exercising jurisdiction under sections 56 and 82 makes an order varying or discharging an overseas parenting order, the Registrar of the court exercising that jurisdiction—

  • (a) must forward to the court, or to the appropriate authority, in the prescribed overseas country—

    • (i) 3 certified copies of the order varying or discharging the overseas parenting order and the reasons for the variation or discharge; and

    • (ii) any further material the court directs; and

  • (b) unless he or she is the Registrar of the court in which the overseas custody order is registered, must forward to the Registrar of that court a copy of the order varying or discharging the overseas parenting order.

  (2) The Registrar of the court in which the overseas custody order is registered must, on receiving notice of the discharge or variation of that order, note the court’s records accordingly, and, if the overseas parenting order is discharged, must cancel the registration of that order.

  Compare: 1968 No 63 s 22D