Hong Kong Ordinances

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ORDINANCE - SECT 48

Power to provide for supervision of children

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) Where the court has jurisdiction by virtue of this Ordinance or of the
Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Ordinance ( Cap. 192) to make an order
for the custody of a child and it appears to the court that there are
exceptional circumstances making it desirable that the child should be under
the supervision of an independent person, the court may, as respects any
period during which the child is, in exercise of that jurisdiction, committed
to the custody of any person, order that the child be under the supervision of
the Director of Social Welfare. (Amended 39 of 1972 s. 33)

(2) Where a child is under the supervision of the Director of Social Welfare
in pursuance of this section the jurisdiction possessed by a court to vary any
order made with respect to the child's custody, maintenance or education under
this Ordinance or under the Matrimonial Proceedings and  Property Ordinance (
Cap. 192) shall, subject to any rules, be exercisable at the instance of that
court itself. (Amended 39 of 1972 s. 33)

(3) The court shall have power from time to time by an order under this
section to vary or discharge any provision made in pursuance of this section.
[cf. 1965 c. 72 s. 37 U.K.]