New Zealand Acts

CARE OF CHILDREN ACT 2004 - SECT 87

87 Costs of returning child: order for payment when warrant issued under section 72

1 This section applies to a court if, for the purpose of enforcing the role, conferred by an overseas parenting order that is registered in New Zealand, of providing day-to-day care for a child, the court issues, or has issued, in relation to any child, a warrant under section 72 .

2 The court may, if it thinks just, make, against any person who has knowingly abducted the child, or who is deliberately holding the child, in contravention of the overseas parenting order, an order for the payment of some or all of the costs of returning the child to the person who, under the overseas parenting order, has the role of providing day-to-day care for the child.

3 The costs referred to in subsection (2) may include the costs and travelling expenses of any necessary escort.

Note: 1968 No 63 s 22G