Section 374: Discharge and variation of parenting order

Sentencing Act 2020 · 2020 c. 17View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 11: Behaviour orders — CHAPTER 4: Parenting orders

This section applies where—

a parenting order made under this Chapter is in force, and
an application is made under this section by—
the responsible officer, or
the person in respect of whom it is made

to the court which made the order.

The court may make an order—

discharging the parenting order, or
varying the parenting order—
by cancelling any provision included in it, or
by inserting in it (either in addition to or in substitution for any of its provisions) any provision that the court could include, if it were now making the order.

Where an application under this section for the discharge of a parenting order is dismissed, no-one may make a further application under this section for its discharge except with the consent of the court which made the order.

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