Part II Promotion of Children’s Welfare by Local Authorities and by Children’s Hearings etc.
C1Chapter 4 Parental Responsibilities Orders, etc.
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
Parental responsibilities orders
89 Offences in relation to parental responsibilities orders.
Any person who, knowingly and without lawful authority or reasonable excuse—
a
fails to comply with a notice under section 87(3) of this Act;
b
harbours or conceals a child—
i
as respects whom a parental responsibilities order has been made; and
ii
who has run away, or been taken away or whose return is required by such a notice; or
c
induces, assists or incites a child as respects whom any such order has been made to run away, or stay away, from a place where he is looked after or who takes away such a child from that place,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
Pt. II Ch. 4 modified (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1996/3255, reg. 7(1)