[23 GEO. 5.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[CH. 12.]

(b) if at the date of the order he has attained the A.D. 1933.

age of sixteen years, until he attains the age of nineteen years.

PART III. -cont.

of children

persons to

72. (1) The court which makes, or makes any Conveyance endorsement upon, an approved school order shall cause or young it to be delivered to the authority or person responsible for conveying the child or young person to his school, approved and the person who conveys him to the school shall school. deliver the order to the headmaster or person for the time being in charge of the school.

(2) The court by which an approved school order is made shall cause a record in the prescribed form, embody- ing all such information in the possession of the court with respect to the child or young person as is in the opinion of the court material to be known by the managers of the school, to be prepared and transmitted to the headmaster or person for the time being in charge of the school.

(3) The local or poor law authority, probation officer or police authority, stated by any approved school order to be responsible for conveying a child or young person to his school, shall be responsible for conveying him there at the expense of the local or poor law authority, the probation committee, or police authority, as the case may be.

(4) Where a child or young person has been ordered to be sent to an approved school, any person who harbours or conceals him after the time has come for him to go to his school shall on summary conviction be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two months, or to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or to both such imprisonment and fine.

(5) Where a person authorised to take a child or young person to an approved school is, when the time has come for him to go to his school, unable to find him or unable to obtain possession of him, a court of summary jurisdiction may, if satisfied by information on oath that some person named in the information can produce the child or young person, issue a summons requiring the person so named to attend at the court on such day as may be specified in the summons and produce the child or young person and, if he fails to do so without reasonable excuse, he shall, in addition to any other liability to which

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