Children and Young Persons Act, 1938 : 1 & s Geo. 6. Ch. 40.

  • Great Britain
Date:
1938]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Children and Young Persons Act, 1938 : 1 & s Geo. 6. Ch. 40. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Proceedings on dis- obedience court for attendance at school. Persons Act, 1938. SCHEDULE. AND OF THE Epvucation Act, 1921. Amendments of the principal. Act. In section sixty-four after the words ‘‘ appointed for the purpose by the court’, there shall be inserted the words “ or ‘‘ (without making any other order or in addition to making ‘such an order as is last mentioned) may commit him to the “care of any fit person, whether a relative or not, who is *‘ willing to undertake the care of him,”’. there shall be inserted the words ‘‘ or under section eighty-four of this Act.” In section eighty-four, in subsection (6), after the word which any such order is revoked may, upon the application of any person, substitute for that order an order placing the child or young person for a specified period not exceeding three years, under the supervision of a probation officer or of some other person appointed for the purpose by the court: ‘Provided that an order under this subsection placing a young person under the supervision of a probation officer or of some other person appointed by the court shall be of no effect after the time at which the person to whom the order relates attains the age of eighteen years.” In the Third Schedule, the provisions substituting a “~ nn nN bal n~ n cease to have effect. Amendment of the Education Act, 1921. section ;: : “45,.—(1) Where a school attendance order is not complied with, without any reasonable excuse, a court of summary jurisdiction, on complaint made by the local education authority, may, if they think fit, order as follows :— (a) in the first case of non-compliance if the parent of the child does not appear, or appears and fails to satisfy the court that he has used all reason- able efforts to enforce compliance with the order, the court may impose a fine not exceeding with 8