A.D. 1933.
PART III.
-cont. Committal
to local and other autho- rities as "fit
persons."
c. 57.
[CH. 12.]
Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.
[23 GEO. 5.]
76.—(1) The local authority shall for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to the making of orders committing children and young persons to the care of fit persons be deemed to be a fit person and accordingly orders may be made committing children and young persons to their care and they may undertake the care of children and young persons so committed.
(2) An order may be made under this Act com- mitting to the care of the Minister of Pensions, or of a person appointed by him, any child or young person for the care of whom it is the duty of the Minister 8 & 9 Geo. 5. under section nine of the War Pensions (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1918, to make provision, and accordingly in subsection (4) of that section the reference to an order made under section twenty-one or subsection (7) of section fifty-eight of the Children Act, 1908, shall be construed as including a reference to an order made under this Act.
8 Edw. 7. c. 67.
Provision of remand homes by
councils of
PART IV.
REMAND HOMES, APPROVED SCHOOLS, AND PERSONS TO WHOSE CARE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS
MAY BE COMMITTED.
Remand Homes.
77.—(1) It shall be the duty of the council of every county and county borough to provide for their area remand homes, which may be situate either within or counties and without the area, and for that purpose they may arrange with the occupiers of any premises for the use thereof, or may themselves establish, or join with the council of another county or county borough in establishing, such homes.
county boroughs.
(2) The authority or persons responsible for the management of any institution other than a prison may, subject in the case of an institution supported wholly or partly out of public funds to the consent of the Government department concerned, arrange with the council of a county or county borough for the use of the institution, or any part thereof, as a remand home upon such terms as may be agreed.
(3) A child or young person who may lawfully be remanded in custody to any place situated within a
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