46Interim orders

46 Interim orders

(1)  If a person is charged with an offence against this Act, the regulations or the Standards, the Secretary may apply to a magistrate for an order preventing the person from providing child care or otherwise caring for or looking after a child who is not the child of that person.

(2)  An application –

(a) is to be in a form approved by the Chief Magistrate; and

(b) may be served on the person charged with the offence in the same manner as a summons under the Justices Act 1959  –

and service of the application may be proved in the same manner as the service of such a summons may be proved.