Children and Families Act 2014

14 (1) Section 11H (monitoring contact) is amended as follows. E+W

(2) In subsection (1) (section applies if court makes or varies a contact order) for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—

“(a) a child arrangements order containing provision of a kind mentioned in section 11C(1)(a)(i), (ii) or (iii), or

(b) an order varying a child arrangements order so as to add, vary or omit provision of any of those kinds.”

(3) In subsection (2)(a) (court may ask officer to monitor compliance) for “the contact order (or the contact order as varied);” substitute “ each provision of any of those kinds that is contained in the child arrangements order (or in the child arrangements order as varied); ”.

(4) In subsection (3) (individuals whose compliance may be monitored)—

(a) for “contact order”, in both places, substitute “ child arrangements order ”, and

(b) for paragraphs (a) and (b) (including the “or” at the end of paragraph (b)) substitute—

“(za) provides for the child concerned to live with different persons at different times and names the individual as one of those persons;

(a) imposes requirements on the individual with regard to the child concerned spending time or otherwise having contact with some other person;

(b) names the individual as a person with whom the child concerned is to spend time or otherwise have contact; or”.

(5) In subsection (4) (requests under subsection (2) not to relate to contact activity conditions)—

(a) for “contact order”, in both places, substitute “ child arrangements order ”,

(b) for “a contact activity” substitute “ an activity ”, and

(c) for “the contact activity” substitute “ the activity ”.

(6) In subsection (5) (when court may make request under subsection (2))—

(a) in paragraph (a) for “contact order”, in both places, substitute “ child arrangements order ”, and

(b) in paragraph (b) after “the child concerned” insert “ or to the child's living arrangements ”.

(7) In subsection (10) (request not to be made under subsection (2) if contact order is an excepted order) for “contact” substitute “ child arrangements ”.

(8) In the title after “contact” insert “ and shared residence ”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 2 para. 14 in force at 22.4.2014 by S.I. 2014/889, art. 4(f) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2014/1042, arts. 3, 4, 6-10)