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CHILD CAREAND PROTECTION
(5) In determining whether to discharge the order, the
Justice of the Peace shall have regard to the matters referred to
in subsection
(I).
(6)
Any constable authorized by warrant under this
section to search for any child, or to remove any child with or
without search, may enter (if need be by force) any house,
building or other place specified in the warrant and may remove
the child therefrom.
(7) The constable executing any warrant issued under this
section may be accompanied by the person laying the
information, if that person so desires, and may also, if the Justice
of the Peace by whom the warrant is issued so directs, be
accompanied by a duly qualified medical practitioner.
(8)
It shall not be necessary in any information or warrant
under this section to name the child.
12.-(
1)
A constable, a children's officer or a probation and
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after-care officer may take to a place of safety any child in
placeof
respect of whom any of the offences mentioned in the Second
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Schedule has been committed, or there is reason to believe has
Schedule.
been committed, or who is, in accordance with the provisions of
section
13,
about to be brought before a Children's Court.
(2) Any child taken to a place of safety under this section,
or any child who seeks refuge in a place of safety, shall not be
detained there for longer than forty-eight hours without having
been brought before a Children's Court or, if there is no
Children's Court sitting in that parish, a Resident Magistrate in
chambers.
13.-(1)
Any constable or authorized person may bring before
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a Children's Court any child in need of care or protection.
needing care
or
(2)
For the purposes of this section the expression-
protection
before
"authorized person" means-
court.
(a) any probation and after-care officer or any
children's officer;
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