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Article 9 Interim Orders

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(1)

Where, before the commencement date, an interim care order or an interim supervision order has been made under section 38(1) of the 1989 Act and that interim order does not specify a date on which it shall cease to have effect, it shall cease to have effect on whichever of the following events first occurs—

(a)

the expiry of the period of eight weeks beginning with the date on which the order was made;

(b)

if the order is the second or subsequent such order made with respect to the same child in the same proceedings, at the expiry of the relevant period.

(2)

For the purposes of this article, “the relevant period” means—

(a)

the period of four weeks beginning with the date on which the order in question was made; or

(b)

the period of eight weeks beginning with the date on which the first order was made, if that period ends later than the period mentioned in paragraph (2)(a).