Application to court for leave if joint guardians disagree

(1) Where two or more persons act as joint guardians of a child and they are unable to agree on any question affecting the welfare of the child, any of them may apply to the court for its directions, and the court may make such order regarding the matters of difference as it may think proper. (2) The power of the court under subsection (1) of this section shall, where one of the joint guardians is the surviving parent of the child, include power, (a) to make such order regarding, (i) the custody of the child; and 20 (ii) the right of access to the child of the surviving parent, as the court thinks fit, having regard to the welfare of the (b) to make an order requiring the surviving parent to pay a weekly or other periodical sum towards the maintenance of the child as the court thinks reasonable having regard to the means of the surviving parent; (c) to vary or discharge any order previously made under this section.