SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Interpretation

Wardship and custody orders

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1

Any order in force immediately before the commencement date—

a

making a person a ward of court; or

b

otherwise providing for the custody of, or access to, any person,

which is expressed to continue in force until the person who is the subject of the order attains the age of twenty-one years, or any age between eighteen and twenty-one years, shall have effect as if the reference to his attaining that age were a reference to his attaining the age of eighteen years or, in relation to a person who by virtue of section 1 attains full age on the commencement date, to that date.

2

This paragraph is without prejudice to so much of any order as makes provision for the maintenance or education of a person after he has attained the age of eighteen years.