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[23 GEO. 5.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[CH. 12.]

brought back to that person, if he is willing to receive A.D. 1933. him, and if he is not willing to receive him, may be brought-

(a) if the order committing him to the care of that person was made by a petty sessional court, before a juvenile court acting for the same petty sessional division or place as that court; or

(b) in any other case, before a juvenile court having jurisdiction in the place where he was residing immediately before he ran away,

and that court may make any order with respect to him which the court might have made if he had been brought before it as being a child or young person who, having no parent or guardian, was beyond control.

(2) A child or young person who runs away from any person with whom he has been boarded out by a local authority under this Act may be apprehended without warrant and brought back to that person, or to such other person as the local authority direct.

(3) Any person who knowingly—

(a) assists or induces a child or young person to run away from a person to whose care he has been committed or with whom he has been boarded out by a local authority, under this Act; or

(b) harbours or conceals a child or young person who has so run away, or prevents him from returning,

shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Provisions as to Contributions towards Expenses.

PART IV. -cont.

86.-(1) Where an order has been made by a court Contribu- committing a child or young person to the care of a tions to be fit person, or sending him to an approved school, it shall made by be the duty of the following persons to make contri- parents, &c., butions in respect of him, that is to say:-

(a) his father or stepfather; (b) his mother or stepmother;

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of children

and young persons committed to the care