Section 67 — Care of Children Act 2004: Registrar may decline requests for counselling and recommend instead applications under section 68

67 Registrar may decline requests for counselling and recommend instead applications under section 68 (1) The Registrar may decline a request under section 65(1) that relates to a parenting order if he or she considers that arranging for the matter to be referred to a counsellor is unlikely to help the parties to resolve the dispute. (2) Without limiting the discretion in subsection (1) , in exercising that discretion the Registrar must have regard to whether a party to the order has used violence (as defined in section 3(2) of the Domestic Violence Act 1995 ) against— (a) another party to the order; or (b) a child in the care of another party to the order; or (c) both. (3) In declining a request under subsection (1) , the Registrar may recommend that any or all of the parties to the order make an application under section 68 . (4) This section overrides sections 65 and 66 .