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company the child frequents is the mother of the child or young person, and she exercises proper guardianship and due care to protect the child or young person from contamination.
(2) Every order made under this section shall be in writing, and any such order may be made by the court in the absence of the child or young person; and the consent of any person or institution to undertake the care of the child or young person in pursuance of any such order shall be proved in such manner as the court may think sufficient to bind that person or institution.
(3).--(i) Any person or institution to whose care a child or young person is committed under this section shall, whilst the order is in force, have the like control over the child or young person as the parent and shall be responsible for his main- tenance, and the child or young person shall continue in the care of such person or institution, notwithstanding that he is claimed by his parent or any other person, and if any person-
(a) knowingly assists or induces, directly or indirectly, a child or young person to escape from the person or institution to whose care he is so committed;
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(b) knowingly harbours, conceals, or prevents from returning to such person or institution, a child or young person who has so escaped or knowingly assists in so doing; he shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprisonment, for any term not exceeding six months.
(ii) Any court having power so to commit a child or young person shall have power to make orders on the parent or other person liable to maintain the child or young person to contribute to his maintenance during such period as aforesaid such sums as the court shall think fit, and may from time to time vary such orders.
(iii) Any such order may be made on the complaint or application of the person or institution to whose care the child is for the time being committed or on the complaint or the application of the Inspector General of Police and either at the time when the order for committal of the child or young person is made, or sub- sequently, and the sums contributed by the parent or such other person shall be paid to such person or institution as the court may name, and be applied for the maintenance of the child or young person or towards the cost of conducting the institution as the case may be.
(iv) Where any parent or other person has been ordered under this section to contribute to the maintenance of a child or young person, he shall give notice of of any change of address to the Inspector General of Police and if he fails to do so without reasonable excuse, he shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
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(v) The Governor may at any time in his discretion discharge a child or young person from the care of any person or institution to whose care he is committed pursuance of this section, either absolutely or on such conditions as the Governor approves, and may, if he thinks fit, by Order in Council make rules in relation to children or young persons so committed to the care of any person or institution, and to the duties of and remuneration of such persons or institutions with respect to such children or young persons.
4) The parent or guardian of a child or young person who by his neglect to exercise due control shall conduce to the child or young person being found in any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and in default of payment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month.