75Consent orders

75 Consent orders (1) A court may make a child protection prohibition order if the applicant and the reportable offender consent to the making of the (2) A court may make an interim prohibition order if the applicant and the reportable offender consent to the making of the order. (3) The court is not required to conduct a hearing before making an order under this section unless the court considers that it is in the interests of justice to conduct the hearing. (4) Without limiting subsection (3), in determining whether it is in the interests of justice to conduct the hearing, the court may have regard to the following: (a) whether the reportable offender has obtained legal advice in relation to the order concerned; (b) whether the reportable offender: (i) has impaired intellectual functioning; or (ii) is a person in respect of whom a guardianship order is in force under the Guardianship of Adults Act 2016 or the Guardianship of Infants Act 1972; or (iii) is illiterate or is not literate in the English language; or (iv) is subject to some other condition that may prevent the reportable offender from understanding the effect of giving consent to the making of the order.