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StatuteCare of Children Act 2004

Section 63 — Care of Children Act 2004: Purpose and overview of sections 64 to 80

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63 Purpose and overview of sections 64 to 80 (1) The purpose of sections 64 to 80 is to provide to the Court, and to parties to a parenting order, a range of options for making the order work. (2) To that end, sections 64 to 80 — (a) provide for the parties to request counselling to resolve a dispute over observing and carrying out the order: (b) provide for the Court to make orders of various kinds, or to respond in various other ways, if a dispute over contravention of a parenting order is not resolved by the parties themselves: (c) make it an offence for a party to the parenting order to intentionally— (i) contravene the order; or (ii) prevent compliance with the order: (d) make it an offence to knowingly resist or obstruct the execution of— (i) a warrant to enforce the role of providing day-to-day care for, or an order for contact with, a child; or (ii) a warrant relating to preventing removal of a child from New Zealand: (e) make it an offence to knowingly fail or refuse to afford immediate entrance to (all or a part of) any premises to a person executing a warrant of that kind: (f) make it an offence in certain circumstances to take or attempt to take a child out of New Zealand.

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