Family Law Reform Act 1969

Wardship and custody ordersE+W

3(1)Any order in force immediately before the commencement date—E+W

(a)making a person a ward of court; or

(b)under the M1M2Guardianship of Infants Acts 1886 and 1925, or under the M3Matrimonial Causes Act 1965 or any enactment repealed by that Act, for the custody of, or access to, any person,

which is expressed to continue in force until the person who is the subject of the order attains the age of twenty-one, or any age between eighteen and twenty-one, shall have effect as if the reference to his attaining that age were a reference to his attaining the age of eighteen or, in relation to a person who by virtue of the principal section attains full age on the commencement date, to that date.

(2)This paragraph is without prejudice to so much of any order as makes provision for the maintenance or education of a person after he has attained the age of eighteen.

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