Women’s Charter 1961 · s 126A

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s 126AEnforcement of custody order, etc.

(1)

This section applies where —

(a)

the court makes an order for a child to be placed in the custody, or the care and control, of a person; and

(b)

the child leaves, or is removed from, the physical custody of that person.

(2)

To enforce the order, the court may —

(a)

order that the child be returned to the physical custody of the person mentioned in subsection (1)(a); and

(b)

direct the bailiff to seize the child and deliver the child to the physical custody of that person.