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[23 GEO. 5.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[CH. 12.]

months as the Secretary of State may, after A.D. 1933. considering the circumstances of his case, direct;

or

(b) after attaining the age of nineteen years.

(4) The managers shall forthwith notify the Secretary of State of the recall of any person and shall state the reasons for his recall, and when the managers release any person so recalled they shall forthwith notify the Secretary of State that they have done so.

(5) For the purposes of this Act a person who is out under supervision from an approved school shall be deemed to be under the care of the managers of the school.

PART III.

-cont.

duration,

75.-(1) Before making an order under this Provisions Act committing a child or young person to the care as to of a fit person, the court shall endeavour to ascertain making, the religious persuasion of the child or young person, and and effect, in selecting the person to whose care the child or young of orders person is to be committed the court shall if possible select of com- a person who is of the same religious persuasion as the mittal to fit child or young person or who gives an undertaking that persons. he will be brought up in accordance with that religious persuasion.

(2) Every order committing a child or young person to the care of a fit person shall contain a declaration-

(a) as to the age; and

(b) as to the religious persuasion;

of the child or young person with respect to whom it is made.

(3) Every order committing a child or young person to the care of a fit person shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, remain in force until he attains the age of eighteen years.

(4) The person to whose care a child or young person is committed by any such order as aforesaid shall, while the order is in force, have the same rights and powers and be subject to the same liabilities in respect of his maintenance as if he were his parent, and the person so committed shall continue in his care notwith- standing any claim by a parent or any other person.

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