Commentary on Sections Schedule 2 – Child arrangements orders: amendments Schedule 2, Part 2 – Child arrangements order – amendments in other legislation
126.Part 2 of Schedule 2 contains amendments to legislation other than the Children Act 1989 that relate to section 12 (child arrangements orders). Many of these amendments replace references to a “residence order” or “contact order” with a references to a “child arrangements order”, and all are made either with the intention of preserving the original policy effect of the legislation concerned, or to reflect the new intentions referred to above (for example, in relation to the ability to make activity directions where there has been an alleged or actual failure to comply with a provision of a child arrangements order).