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(b) is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or visible means of subsistence, or is found wandering and having no parent or guardian, or a parent or guardian who does not exercise proper guardianship; or (c) is found destitute, either being an orphan, or having both parents or his surviving parent, or in the case of an illegitimate child his mother, undergoing imprisonment; or

(d) is found destitute and having no parent within

the Colony; or

(e) is the daughter, whether legitimate or illegitimate, of a father who has been convicted of an offence under Section 5 or Section 6 of the Protection

of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, or Section Ordinances 2 of the Punishment of Incest Ordinance, 1916; No. 4 of

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(f) frequents the company of any reputed thief, or

common or reputed prostitute; or

1897 and No. 3 of 1916.

(g) is lodging or residing in a house or the part of a house used by any prostitute for the purposes of prostitution, or is otherwise living in cireum- stances calculated to cause, encourage, or favour the seduction or prostitution of the child; or

(h) is in the custody, charge or care of any person who has within the preceding twelve months been convicted of any offence under Section 26A of the Offences against the Person Ordinance, Ordinances 1865; or has at any time been convicted of an 1865 and offence under Section 45A of the said Ordinance, No. 13 of as enacted by Section 3 of the Offences against 1929. the Person Amendment Ordinance, 1929; or

(i) is brought into the Colony for the purpose of prostitution or has been brought into the Colony from any other place by reason of her having been sent to such other place for the purpose of prostitution; or

(i) is found in any circumstances which are, in the opinion of the Court, likely to lead to any injury to the health or morals of such person.

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And the court before which a person is brought as coming within one of these descriptions, if satisfied on enquiry of that fact, may order the child or young person to be taken out of the custody, charge, or care of any person, and to be committed to the care of a relative of the child or young person or some other fit person or institution (including an Industrial or Reformatory School) named by the court (such relative or other person or institution being willing to undertake such care), until the child or young person attains the age of eighteen years, or for any shorter period, and may in addition to such order make an order that the child or young person be placed under the supervision of a probation officer, and the court may of its own motion, or on the application of any person, from time to time, by order renew, vary, or revoke any such order.

Provided that a child or young person shall not be treated as coming within the description contained in paragraph (ƒ) if the only common or reputed prostitute whose company the child frequents is the mother of the child or young person, and she exercises proper guardian- ship and due care to protect the child or young person from contamination.

(2) Every order made under this section shall be in writing, and any such order may be made by the court in the absence of the child or young person; and the con- sent of any person or institution to undertake the care of the child or young person in pursuance of any such order shall be proved in such manner as the court may think sufficient to bind that person or institution...

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