12 [Child arrangements] orders and parental responsibility
Children Act 1989 (1989 c 41) | Legislation

12  [Child arrangements] orders and parental responsibility

[(1)     Where—

(a)     the court makes a child arrangements order with respect to a child,

(b)     the father of the child, or a woman who is a parent of the child by virtue of section 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, is named in the order as a person with whom the child is to live, and

(c)     the father, or the woman, would not otherwise have parental responsibility for the child,

the court must also make an order under section 4 giving the father, or under section 4ZA giving the woman, that responsibility.

(1A)     Where—

(a)     the court makes a child arrangements order with respect to a child,

(b)     the father of the child, or a woman who is a

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