Contact with Children Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Authority refusal of contact with child

2.  Where an authority has decided under Article 53(6) to refuse contact with a child that would otherwise be required by virtue of Article 53(1) or an order under Article 53, the authority shall, as soon as the decision has been made, notify the following persons of those parts of the information specified in the Schedule as the authority considers those persons need to know—

(a) the child, if he is of sufficient understanding;

(b) the child’s parents;

(c) any guardian of his;

(d) where there was a residence order in force with respect to the child immediately before the care order was made, the person in whose favour the residence order was made;

(e) where immediately before the care order was made, a person had care of the child by virtue of an order made in the exercise of the High Court’s inherent jurisdiction with respect to children, that person; and

(f) any other person whose wishes and feelings the authority considers to be relevant.