Section 110 Child’s Right Act

Section 110 Child’s Right Act 2003 is about Rights and duties of foster parents and other persons. It is under Part XI (Fostering) of the Act.

(1) On the making of a fostering order‐
(a) all rights, duties, obligations and liabilities, including‐
(i) any arising under customary law applicable to the parents of the child, or any other Person or persons in relation to the custody, maintenance and education of the child, and
(ii) all rights to appoint a guardian and to consent or give notice of consent or marriage, shall be suspended; and

(b) there shall vest in and be exercisable by and enforceable against the foster parents, all such rights, duties, obligations and liabilities in relation to custody, maintenance and education of the child as if the child were a child born to the foster parent in lawful marriage.

(2) A child shall, in respect of his custody, maintenance and education, stand to the foster parent exactly in the position of a child born to the foster parent in lawful marriage.

(3) Where a husband and wife are joint foster parents, they shall, in respect of the custody, maintenance and education of the child, and for the purpose of the jurisdiction of any court to make orders as to the custody and maintenance of a right of access to the child, stand to each other and to the child in the same relationship as they would have stood if the child were a child born to them in lawful marriage.