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28. After Article 12 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (residence orders and parental responsibility) there shall be inserted the following Article—
12A.—(1) Where a court is considering whether to make a residence or contact order in favour of a prohibited person, the court shall consider whether the child has suffered or is at risk of suffering any harm through seeing or hearing ill-treatment of another person by the prohibited person.
(2) A person is a prohibited person for the purposes of paragraph (1) if either he is or the court considers that he should be prohibited by a non-molestation order under the Family Homes and Domestic Violence (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 from molesting another person.
(3) Paragraph (1) is without prejudice to Article 3.”.
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