Commentary on Sections Part 9 – Parenting Orders Section 114 – Power of court to direct Principal Reporter to consider application for parenting order
253.Section 114 provides that in any proceedings, except applications for antisocial behaviour orders or for a parenting order itself, a court may require the Principal Reporter to consider whether to apply for a parenting order under this Part. The court would do so where it appears to the court from those proceedings that a parenting order might be appropriate.