Part II Promotion of Children’s Welfare by Local Authorities and by Children’s Hearings etc.
Chapter 1 Support for Children and Their Families
Introductory
18 Duty of persons with parental responsibilities to notify change of address to local authority looking after child.
(1)
Where a child is being looked after by a local authority, each natural person who has parental responsibilities in relation to the child shall, without unreasonable delay, inform that authority whenever the person changes his address.
(2)
A person who knowingly fails to comply with the requirement imposed by subsection (1) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of level 1 on the standard scale; but in any proceedings under this section it shall be a defence that—
(a)
the change was to the same address as that to which another person who at that time had parental responsibilities in relation to the child was changing; and
(b)
the accused had reasonable cause to believe that the other person had informed the authority of the change of address of them both.