The Children Act, 1948, and the Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act, 1948 / edited by A.C.L. Morrison [and others].

  • Great Britain
Date:
1948
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Credit: The Children Act, 1948, and the Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act, 1948 / edited by A.C.L. Morrison [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    authority the like notice as respects the child as is required to be given under subsection (3) of this section, so, however, that where an immediate change of residence is necessitated by any emergency, the provisions of this paragraph shall be deemed to have been complied with if notice is given at any time within forty-eight hours after the change ot residence ; (>) if the child dies, within twenty-four hours of the death, give notice in writing thereof to the welfare authority and to the coroner of the district within which the body of the child lies, and the coroner shall hold an inquest thereon, unless there is produced to him a certificate of a registered medical practitioner certifying that that practitioner has personally attended the child during his last illness, and certifying also the cause of death, and the coroner is satisfied that there is no ground for holding an inquest. (6) If an adopted child— (a) is about to be received or is being kept by any person in any premises which are overcrowded, insanitary or dangerous, or In an environ- ment which is detrimental to the child ; or (0) is in the care and possession of an adopter who, by reason of old age, infirmity, ill-health, ignorance, negligence, inebriety, immorality or criminal conduct, or for any other reason, is unfit to have the care of the child ; a court of summary jurisdiction may, on the application of the welfare authority, make an order for the removal of the child to a place of safety until he can be restored to his parents or guardian, or until other arrangements can be made with respect to him; and, upon proof that there is imminent danger to the health or well-being ‘of the child concerned, a justice (acting, if he deems it necessary ex parte) may exercise the like power on the application of a child protection visitor. An order made under this subsection may be enforced by a child protection visitor ; and any person who refuses to comply with such an order upon its being produced, or who obstructs any such visitor in the enforcement of the order, shall be guilty of an offence under this section. (7) It shall be the duty of child protection visitors to visit and examine adopted children in the care and possession of adopters residing in the area of the welfare authority by which they were appointed to be visitors and the premises in which those children are being kept, and any person who refuses to allow any such visitor to make such a visit or examination as aforesaid shall be guilty of an offence under this section. : If any such visitor is refused admission to any premises in which he has reason to believe that an adopted child is being kept, he may apply to a justice of the peace, and the justice, if satisfied on sworn information in writing that admission has been refused and that there is reasonable ground for believing that an adopted child is being kept in the premises, may grant a warrant authorising the visitor to enter the premises, and any person who obstructs any visitor acting in pursuance of such a warrant shall be guilty of an offence. (8) The provisions of subsections (3) to (7) of this section shall not have effect where possession of an adopted child is proposed to be taken, or has been taken— (a2) for a temporary purpose only ; or (b) by a person who has undertaken the nursing and maintenance of the child under Part VII of the Public Health Act, 1936, or Part XIII of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, or under the provisions of any Act for the relief of the poor, or of any order made under such Act, or a person who undertakes the nursing and maintenance of children boarded out [by a local authority under Part IT of the Children Act, 7948]; or
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