Power of court as to child’s religious education

(1) Upon any application by the parent for the production or custody of a child, if the court is of the opinion that the parent ought not to have the custody of the child, and that the child is being brought up in a different religion to that in which the parent has a legal right to require that the child should be brought up, the court may, having regard to the age and maturity of the child, and if it considers it in the best interests of the child, order that the child be brought up in the religion in which the parent has a legal right to require that the child should be brought up. (2) Nothing contained in this section or in sections 26 to 28 of this Act shall interfere with or affect the power of the court to consult the wishes of the child in considering what order ought to be made under this section, or diminish the right which any child now possesses to the exercise of its own free choice. custody, up- bringing, etc., of