s.10Residence, contact and other orders with respect to children
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Section 10Part 2 — Orders With Respect To Children in Family Proceedings

Residence, contact and other orders with respect to children

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In this Law —
"a contact order" means an order requiring the person with whom a child lives, or is to live, to allow the child to visit or stay with the person named in the order, or for that person and the child otherwise to have contact with each other;
"a prohibited steps order" means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child, and which is of a kind specified in the order, shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court;
"a residence order" means an order settling the arrangements to be made as to the person with whom a child is to live; and
"a specific issue order" means an order giving directions for the purpose of determining a specific question which has arisen, or which may arise, in connection with any aspect of parental responsibility for a child.
In this Law "a section 10 order" means any of the orders mentioned in subsection (1) and any order varying or discharging such an order.
For the purposes of this Law "family proceedings" means any proceedings —
under the inherent jurisdiction of the Grand Court in relation to children; and
under the enactments mentioned in subsection (4),
but does not include proceedings on an application for leave under section 92(3).
The enactments referred to under subsection (3) are —
Parts I, II and IV of this Law;
the Matrimonial Causes Law (2005 Revision);
the Adoption of Children Law (2003 Revision);
the Affiliation Law (1995 Revision); and
section 5 of the Age of Majority Law (1999 Revision).

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contact orderprohibited steps orderresidence orderspecific issue ordersection 10 orderfamily proceedings

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