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Amendment of section 34A.
Amendment of section 34C.
PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1987
(c) in subsection (1B)(c)(iii), by deleting "treatment for his mental
condition" and substituting the following-
"or surgical attention or treatment”.
4. Section 34A of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "treatment for his mental condition" and substituting the following-
"or surgical attention or treatment giving due consideration to the wishes (if any) of the parent or guardian of the supervised person notified under section 34(1AA)(b)”.
5. Section 34C(3) of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting after "child" in the third place where it occurs the following--
Amendment of section 34E.
6.
Addition of new
section 34F.
"(other than a child under the age of 7 years)".
Section 34E(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended— (a) in paragraph (a), by inserting "or" at the end thereof;
(b) in paragraph (b), by deleting "and who is about to be brought
before a juvenile court for the purposes of section 34"; and
(c) in paragraph (c), by deleting "about to be brought before a juvenile
court for the purposes of" and substituting the following--
"the subject of a motion or application under".
7.
The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 34E the following-
"Detention in hospital.
34F. (1) Where any of the circumstances set out in subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c) of section 34E apply in relation to a child or juvenile, any person mentioned in that subsection who is of the opinion that that child or juvenile is in need of urgent medical or surgical attention or treatment may take the child or juvenile to a hospital instead of to a place of refuge.
(2) A child or juvenile who is admitted to a hospital after being taken there under subsection (1) may be detained by the Director of Social Welfare in that hospital for so long as the attendance of the child or juvenile at that hospital is necessary for the purpose of medical or surgical attention or treatment and thereafter the Director of Social Welfare may take him to a place of refuge.
(3) Where a child or juvenile is taken to a place of refuge under subsection (2), section 34E(2), (3), (4) and (5) shall apply as if he had been taken to a place of refuge under section 34E(1).
(4) Where a child or juvenile is detained in a hospital under subsection (2), the Director of Social Welfare shall have the like control over, and responsibility for maintenance of, that child or juvenile as a person in charge of a place of refuge under section 34E would have had if the child or juvenile had been detained in that place of refuge.".
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