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PART IV.

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[CH. 12.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[23 GEO. 5.]

A.D. 1933. person may empower the person to whose care he has been committed to arrange for his emigration, but except with the authority of the Secretary of State no person to whose care a

child or young person has been committed shall arrange for his emigration:

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Provided that the Secretary of State shall not empower such a person to arrange for the emigration of a child or young person, unless he is satisfied that the child or young person consents and also that his parents have been consulted or that it is not practicable to consult them.

(6) An order committing a child or young person to the care of a fit person may, on the application of any person, be varied or revokeď—

(a) if the order was made by a court of summary jurisdiction, by a juvenile court acting for the same petty sessional division or place;

(b) in any case, by a juvenile court acting for the petty sessional division or place within which the child or young person is residing.

(7) If on an application made by the parent or guardian or any near relative of a child or young person committed by any such order as aforesaid any court having power to vary or revoke the order is satisfied that he is not being brought up in accordance with his religious persuasion, the court shall, unless a satis- factory undertaking is offered by the person to whose care he has been committed, either revoke the order or vary it in such manner as the court thinks best calculated to secure that he is thenceforth brought up in accordance with that persuasion.

(8) Where the local authority are of opinion that any child or young person who has been committed to their care and who is under seventeen years of age should be sent to an approved school, they may apply to a juvenile court, and that court may, if it thinks that it is desirable in his interests to do so, order him to be sent to such a school.

85.-(1) A child or young person who runs away from from care of a person to whose care he has been committed under Act may be apprehended without warrant and

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fit persons.

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