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CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION
that parent and the child, as the court may
think fit having regard to the best interests of
the child;
if there are reasonable grounds to believe that a person
is likely to interfere with
a
party who has custody of a
child, prohibit that person from contacting or
interfering with, or attempting to contact or interfere
with, the party who has custody of the child;
where any person found guilty of such offence is a
person having the custody, charge, or care of the child,
require-
(i) that person; or
(ii) the child or any other child who resides
with that person,
to receive counselling for a specified period from a fit
person, qualified by his knowledge of psychology or
psychiatry, appointed by the court.
(3) The Government agency responsible for children or
any party to proceedings under this section may apply to the
court for a variation or discharge of an order, if circumstances
have changed significantly since the order was made.
(4)
Notice of any application under subsection (3) shall
be given to all other parties to the proceedings at least seven
days before the date set for hearing the application.
(5)
If a Children's Court before which any child is
brought is not in a position to decide whether any or what order
ought to be made under this section, it may make such interim
order as it thinks fit for the child's detention or continued
detention in a place of safety, or for his committal to the care of
a fit person, whether a relative or not, who is willing to
undertake the care of the child.
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by
L.N.
111/2005]