Section 156 — Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989: Court may require party to attend hearing

156 Court may require party to attend hearing (1) Where the Court considers that the presence of any person required to be served with an application under section 152 or section 154 or section 207L or section 207R of this Act 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 to whom it is addressed to appear before the Court at the time stated in the summons. (2) In any case where a summons under this section has been served on any person, a Family Court Judge may, if the person to whom the summons is issued does not appear to answer to it, direct the issue of a warrant to arrest that person and bring that person before the Court. (3) Every person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 who, being required to appear before the Court under this section, refuses or fails without reasonable excuse to appear. Compare: 1974 No 72 s 27(6), (8)-(11) Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 November 1999, by section 6 Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Trans-Tasman Transfer of Protection Orders and Proceedings) Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 116) by inserting “ or section 207L or section 207R ” . Subsection (1) was amended, as from 13 September 2002, by section 6 Family Courts Amendment Act 2000 (2000 No 65) by substituting “ a form prescribed by rules of Court ” for “ the prescribed form ” . See clause 2 Family Courts Amendment Act Commencement Order 2002 (SR 2002/254).