157Court may require child or young person to attend hearing

1. Where the court considers that the presence of the child or young person in respect of whom any application is made under Part 2 or Part 3A is necessary to enable the court to hear and determine that application, the court may direct the Registrar to issue a summons in a form prescribed by rules of court requiring the person who has custody of the child or young person to ensure that the child or young person is present at the hearing.

2. In any case where a summons under this section has been served on any person, a Family Court Judge may, if the child or young person in respect of whom the summons is issued does not appear at the hearing when required to do so, issue a warrant authorising the chief executive or any constable or any other person named in the warrant to take possession of that child or young person and bring the child or young person before the court.

3. The function of executing a warrant issued in the name of the chief executive may be performed by a social worker or any other person authorised under a delegation to carry out that function (see section 7C).

4. Section 123 shall apply, with all necessary modifications, in relation to every warrant issued under subsection (2) as if every such warrant were a warrant issued under section 122.

5. Every person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 who, being required pursuant to a summons issued under this section to ensure that a child or young person appears before the court, fails to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the child or young person so appears.