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Schedule: C - Forms in civil proceedings

Form: 84.4 Emergency care order - Child Care Act, 1991 section 13 (1)



O.84, r.6 (2)

Child Care Act, 1991

section 13 (1)

Emergency care order

(where child is not in custody of health board)


District Court Area of

District No.

In the matter of ........... a child

Name (if known) or description

......... Applicant

of ............

........... Respondent

of .............

UPON APPLICATION made to this Court to-day by the above-named applicant under section 13 (1) of the above-mentioned Act for an emergency care order in respect of the child *named *described above, who appears to the Court to be aged .... years, having been born *(so far as has been ascertained) on the ... day of ...... 19....

and who *resides *is for the time being at ...........

in the functional area of the applicant health board and in the said court district,

THE COURT *(being satisfied that notice of the application was duly served upon the respondent,)

having heard the evidence tendered herein,

being of opinion that there is reasonable cause to believe that there is likely to be an immediate and serious risk to the health/welfare of the child which necessitates his/her being placed in the care of a health board, and

being satisfied that the welfare of the child requires that this order be made,

HEREBY ORDERS that the child *named *described above be placed under the care of the applicant health board for the period of ... days (being a period not exceeding eight days) from the day upon which the child is delivered into the custody of that board;

*(AND DIRECTS under section 13 (7) (a) of the Act as follows:—

).

Dated this ... day of ...... 19.....

Signed ...............

Judge of the Children Court

*(for the said district).

* Delete words inapplicable