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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990/schedule-16/paragraph-33",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/41",
  "legislation_title": "Courts and Legal Services Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/33",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Schedule 14 to the Act of 1989 (transitionals and savings) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 15 (children in compulsory care) at the end of sub-paragraph (1) there shall be added\n“; or—\n(h) in care by virtue of an order of the court made in the exercise of the High Court’s inherent jurisdiction with respect to children,”.\n(3) In paragraph 16 (modifications)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (4), for the word “(g)\" there shall be substituted “ (h)\" ”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (5) for the words from “under\" to “1973\" there shall be substituted\n“—\n(a) under section 4(4)(a) of the Guardianship Act 1973;\n(b) under section 43(5)(a) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973; or\n(c) in the exercise of the High Court’s inherent jurisdiction with respect to children,”.\n(4) After paragraph 16 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“ Cessation of wardship where ward in care\n16A Where a child who is a ward of court is in care by virtue of—\n(a) an order under section 7(2) of the Family Law Reform Act 1969; or\n(b) an order made in the exercise of the High Court’s inherent jurisdiction with respect to children,\nhe shall, on the day on which Part IV commences, cease to be a ward of court.”\n(5) In paragraph 22(a) for the word “(g)\" there shall be substituted “ (h)\" ”.\n(6) In paragraph 36(5)(b) for the words “subsection (4)\" there shall be substituted “ subsection (6)\" ”.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 33 wholly in force at 14.10.1991 see s. 124(3) and S.I. 1991/1883, art.3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:54.699974+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."
}