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Oranga Tamariki Act 1989

Youth justice - Supervision with residence orders

313: Court may make orders for access and exercise of other rights by parents and other persons

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"Courts can help parents and others spend time with and make decisions for young people in care."

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When a court decides that a young person will live with the chief executive, you can ask the court to let you spend time with that young person. You can be a parent or another person who wants to see the young person. The court can say yes and make an order that lets you visit the young person.

The court can also give you other rights to help take care of the young person, like making decisions about their life. The court gets to decide what rights you should have and under what conditions. You can ask the court to make these decisions at the same time it decides the young person will live with the chief executive, or you can ask later, as long as you make an application, possibly referring to information in section 311.

The court's order can have conditions that you must follow.

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Supervision with residence orders

313Court may make orders for access and exercise of other rights by parents and other persons

  1. Where the court makes an order under section 311 placing a young person in the custody of the chief executive, it may on making the order, or at any time thereafter, on application made by any parent of that young person or by any other person, make an order—

  2. granting access to that young person to that parent or other person:
    1. conferring on that parent or other person such other rights in relation to the young person as it thinks fit.

      1. Any such order may be made on such terms and conditions as the court thinks fit.

      Notes
      • Section 313(1): amended, on , by section 13 of the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services Act 1999 (1999 No 82).