Oranga Tamariki Act 1989

Care and protection of children and young persons - Services orders

86A: Interim services orders

You could also call this:

"The court can make a temporary order to help a child while it decides the main case."

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When you apply to the court for a care or protection order for a child or young person, the court can make a temporary order. The court can do this if you ask for it, or if a lawyer for the child or young person asks for it, or if the court decides to do it on its own. The temporary order is made under the rules in section 86 and it happens while the court is still deciding about the main application.

The court can make this temporary order to help the child or young person until the court makes a final decision. You or a lawyer for the child or young person can ask the court for this temporary order. The court has the power to make this order even if nobody asks for it, as long as it is following the rules in section 86.

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86: Services orders, or

"Help orders from the court to keep you safe"

86B: No services orders in respect of permanent caregivers, or

"Courts can't make special rules for permanent caregivers or the kids in their care."

Part 2Care and protection of children and young persons
Services orders

86AInterim services orders

Where an application is made to the court for a care or protection order in respect of a child or young person, the court may, on application by the applicant, or a barrister or solicitor representing the child or young person, or of its own motion, make such an order as it is empowered to make under section 86 pending the determination of the application.

Notes

Section 86A: inserted, on 8 January 1995, by section 12 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 121).
Section 86A: amended, on 1 July 2019, by section 55 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Oranga Tamariki) Legislation Act 2017 (2017 No 31).