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[23 GEO. 5.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[CH. 12.]

Fit Persons.

A.D. 1933.

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84(1) The provisions of this section shall apply PART IV. in relation to orders under this Act committing a child or young person to the care of a fit person, and in this General 'section the expressions "child" and “ young person provisions mean a person with respect to whom such an order is in as to force, irrespective of whether at the date of the making of the order, or at any subsequent date while the order is in force, he was, or is, a child or young person.

children and

young persons committed to the care

persons.

(2) The Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, of fit make rules as to the manner in which children and young persons so committed are to be dealt with and as to the duties of the persons to whose care they are committed and may cause any children or young persons committed to the care of a local authority to be visited from time to time.

(3) A local authority may board out children and young persons committed to their care for such periods and on such terms as to payment and otherwise as they think fit:

Provided that—

(a) the power of a local authority under this subsection shall be exercised in accordance with

any rules made under the last foregoing subsection as to the persons with whom and the conditions under which children and young persons committed to the care of local autho- rities may be so boarded out;

(b) in selecting the person with whom any child or young person is to be boarded out, the local authority shall, if possible, select a person who is of the same religious persuasion as the child or young person, or who gives an under- taking that he will be brought up in accord- ance with that religious persuasion.

(4) The Secretary of State may at any time in his discretion discharge a child or young person from the care of the person to whose care he has been com- mitted, and any such discharge may be granted either absolutely or subject to conditions.

(5) The Secretary of State in any case where it appears to him to be for the benefit of a child or young

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