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FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 149

149 .         Meaning of recovery order — FLA s. 67Q

                A recovery order is an order made by a court doing all or any of the following —

            (a)         requiring the return of a child to —

                  (i)         a parent of the child; or

                  (ii)         a person with whom the child is to live under a parenting order; or

                  (iii)         a person with whom the child is to spend time under a parenting order; or

                  (iv)         a person with whom the child is to communicate under a parenting order; or

                  (v)         a person who has parental responsibility for the child;

            (b)         authorising or directing any person, with such assistance as may be required, and if necessary by force, to stop and search any vehicle, vessel or aircraft, and to enter and search any premises or place, for the purpose of finding a child;

            (c)         authorising or directing any person, with such assistance as may be required, and if necessary by force, to recover a child;

            (d)         authorising or directing a person to whom a child is returned, or who recovers a child, to deliver the child to —

                  (i)         a parent of the child; or

                  (ii)         a person described in paragraph (a)(ii), (iii), (iv) or (v); or

                  (iii)         some other person on behalf of a person described in this paragraph;

            (e)         giving directions about the day-to-day care of a child until the child is returned or delivered to another person;

            (f)         prohibiting a person from again removing or taking possession of a child;

            (g)         authorising or directing a person to arrest, without warrant, a person who again removes or takes possession of a child.

        [Section 149 amended: No. 25 of 2002 s. 64; No. 35 of 2006 s. 160.]



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