Care of Children Act 2004

109 No order or decision about role of providing day-to-day care for child to be made until application determined

• (1) A court to which an application under section 105(1) is made in respect of a child—

  • (a) must not, while those proceedings are pending, make any order or decision about the role of providing day-to-day care for that child in any other proceedings that are before that court (whether those proceedings were commenced before, after, or at the same time as, the application was made); and

  • (b) may adjourn those other proceedings pending the determination of the application.

  (2) Subsection (1)(a) does not limit or affect the court’s power under section 108 to give interim directions.

  Compare: 1991 No 19 s 16