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Objects and Reasons,

1. This Ordinance repeals the Infants Custody Ordin- ance, No. 2 of 1886, and enacts in its place new provisions relating to the custody of infants based upon corresponding provisions in the Guardianship of Infants Acts, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 27) and 1925 (15 & 16 Geo 5, c. 45), with the amendment contained in section 16 of the Administration of Justice Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 26).

2. Section 3 of this Ordinance re-enacts section 2 of the Custody of Infants Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 12) (= section 3 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1886), and section 5 of this Ordinance extends to magistrates the jurisdiction given to courts of summary jurisdiction in England by section 7 of the 1925 Act.

3. The attached Table of Correspondence shows the source of each section of this Ordinance and the variations, if any, from the corresponding section of the English Act.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

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October, 1935.

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