SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Child arrangements orders: amendments

PART 1Amendments of the Children Act 1989

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(1)

Section 11 (section 8 orders: general principles and supplementary provisions) is amended as follows.

(2)

Omit subsection (4) (residence order may make provision about when a child is to live with persons who do not live together).

(3)

In subsection (5) (residence order ceases to have effect where parents resume cohabitation for at least 6 months)—

(a)

in paragraph (a) for “residence” substitute “ child arrangements ”,

(b)

in paragraph (b) for the words before “two” substitute “ the child has ”, and

(c)

in the words after paragraph (b) for “residence order” substitute “ order, so far as it has the result that there are times when the child lives or is to live with one of the parents, ”.

(4)

In subsection (6) (contact order ceases to have effect where parents resume cohabitation for at least 6 months) for the words before “shall cease” substitute “ A child arrangements order made with respect to a child, so far as it provides for the child to spend time or otherwise have contact with one of the child's parents at times when the child is living with the child's other parent, ”.

(5)

In subsection (7)(b) (persons on whom conditions may be imposed by a section 8 order)—

(a)

for sub-paragraph (i) (person in whose favour the order is made) substitute—

“(i)

who is named in the order as a person with whom the child concerned is to live, spend time or otherwise have contact;”, and

(b)

in sub-paragraph (ii) omit “concerned”.