{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-act-2003/section-26C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-act-2003/section-26C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/38",
  "legislation_title": "Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-act-2003",
  "path": "section/26C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26C",
  "heading": "Applications under section 26A or 26B in county court proceedings",
  "text": "(1) Where a local authority or relevant housing provider (a “relevant authority”)—\n(a) is a party to proceedings in the county court , and\n(b) considers that a party to those proceedings is a person in relation to whom it would be reasonable for it to make an application for a parenting order under section 26A or 26B (a “parenting order application”),\nit may make such an application to that court in relation to that person.\n(2) Where—\n(a) a relevant authority considers that a party to proceedings in the county court is a person in relation to whom it would be reasonable for it to make a parenting order application, but\n(b) the relevant authority is not a party to those proceedings,\nit may apply to be joined to those proceedings to enable it to make a parenting order application.\n(3) Where—\n(a) there are proceedings in the county court to which a relevant authority is a party, and\n(b) the relevant authority considers that a child or young person has engaged in anti-social behaviour that is material in relation to the proceedings,\nthe relevant authority may apply for a person who is a parent of the child or young person to be joined to the proceedings to enable it to make a parenting order application in relation to him.\n(4) A person must not be joined to proceedings in pursuance of subsection (3) unless the anti-social behaviour in question is material in relation to those proceedings.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 26A-26C inserted (1.8.2007 for E.) by Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48), ss. 24, 53(1); S.I. 2007/1614, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 26C(1) substituted (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 123 (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in ss. 26A-28 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 52; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/38/section/26C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:54.206021+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}