CAP. 141
Children
[Rev. 2012]
proceedings to comment on the said arrangements and or to make such
applications for contact in the manner prescribed in subsection (4).
(2) Unless a court otherwise directs or it is determined that such contact
would be detrimental to the best interests of the child, there shall be a rebuttable
presumption of reasonable contact between the child and—
(a) the child’s parent or guardian;
(b) any person who has parental responsibility in respect of the child;
(c) the relatives of the child;
(d) such other person as the court shall direct.
(3) Where the court makes an access order under this section it shall determine
the frequency and duration of access to the child subject to such conditions as the
court may consider appropriate.
(4) The Director or the child, with the leave of the court, may apply to the
court for refusal of access to any individual and upon such application the court, if
satisfied that such contact between the child and any individual should be refused
shall make an order authorising the Director to refuse to allow contact between the
child and the person named in the order.
(5) A court making a contact order under this section shall have power to vary,
suspend or discharge the order or revive the order after it has been discharged on
such terms as it shall deem fit; but no contact order shall remain in force beyond
the child’s eighteenth birthday or after the date of a discharge of a care order.
134. Contents of care order
Where a care order to a rehabilitation school has been made by a court against
a child, on a finding of guilt of an offence, the committal order shall specify the
grounds of the order and—
(a) contain a declaration as to the age and religion of the child;
(b) specify the rehabilitation school to which he is to be sent;
(c) specify the person or authority that is to convey the child to the school;
(d) contain directions as to any special care or treatment required for the
child;
(e) contain directions as to access arrangements for the child by his
parent, guardian or relative; and
(f) specify details of any contribution order made against the parents or
the guardian of the child and the dates upon which accounts shall be
supplied to them.
135. Transmission of order
The Court making a care order to a rehabilitation school shall send such order
together with a record in the prescribed form of such information regarding the child
placed in care as the court thinks necessary, to the manager of the rehabilitation
school.
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