Amendment of regulation 32 of the Departure Direction Regulations
18.—(1) Regulation 32 of the Departure Direction Regulations (effective date of a departure direction) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (3), for the words “paragraph (6)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (3A) and (6)”.
(3) After paragraph (3), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(3A) Where an application is determined in accordance with regulation 14 and is one to which paragraph (7) of that regulation applies, a departure direction given in response to that application shall take effect—
(a)from the first day of the maintenance period immediately following the date on which the absent parent and the parent with care have agreed the pattern of contact for the future is to commence; or
(b)where no such date has been so agreed, from the first day of the maintenance period immediately following the date upon which the departure direction is given.”.