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CHILD CAREAND PROTECTION
(b) fails, without good cause, to refer the report in
accordance with subsection (l)(a).
(5) A person to whom a report is referred for
investigation undes subsection (l)(a), other than the Children's
Advocate, commits an offence if that person fails to carry out
the investigation.
8.-(1)
For the purposes of this Act a child shall be
Circum-
stances
in
considered to be in need of care and protection if that child-
which
a
child
is
in
(a) having no parent or guardian, or having a parent or
need ofcare
guardian unfit to exercise care and guardianship, or not
i:ftection,
exercising proper care and guardianship, is falling into
bad associations, exposed to moral danger, or beyond
control;
(b) is being cared for in circumstances in which the child's
physical or mental health or emotional state is being
seriously impaired or there is a substantial risk that it
will be seriously impaired;
(c) is a child in respect of whom any offence mentioned in
the Second Schedule has been committed or attempted second
Schedule.
to be committed;
(d)
is a member of the same household as a child in respect
of whom such an offence has been committed; or
( e )
is a member of the same household as a person who
has been convicted of such an offence in respect of a
child.
(2)
For the purposes of subsection (I), the fact that a
child is found-
(a) destitute;
(b) wandering without any settled place of abode and
without visible means of subsistence;
(c) begging or receiving alms or loitering for that purpose,
shall, without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of
subsection
1
(a), be evidence that the child is exposed to moral
danger.
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