[CH. 12.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[23 GEO. 5.]

A.D. 1933. specified by an endorsement or further endorsement

thereon, as the case may be.

PART III.

-cont.

Duration of approved school

orders.

(6) An endorsement under the foregoing provisions of this section may be made either-

(a) by the court which made the approved school

order; or

(b) if the order was made by a court of summary jurisdiction, by a juvenile court acting for the same petty sessional division or place; or

(c) if the order was made by a court not being a court of summary jurisdiction, by a juvenile court acting for the petty sessional division or place where the child or young person was committed for trial, or if he was not committed for trial, by a juvenile court acting for the petty sessional division or place within which he was resident;

and any such endorsement may be made in the absence of the child or young person concerned.

(7) An approved school order made on the applica- tion of a poor law authority in their capacity as such shall state that it is so made upon the application of that authority, and an approved school order made by reason of the commission of an offence under section ten of this Act (which relates to the punishment of vagrants pre- venting children from receiving education) shall state that it is so made.

71.-(1) Where a court orders a child to be sent to an approved school, the order shall be an authority for his detention in an approved school until the expiration of a period of three years from the date of the order and, if at the expiration of that period he is under the age of fifteen years, for his further detention until he attains that age.

(2) Where a court orders a young person to be sent to an approved school, the order shall be an authority for his detention in an approved school-

(a) if at the date of the order he has not attained the age of sixteen years, until the expiration of a period of three years from the date of the order; and

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