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CHILD CAREAND PROTECTION
(6)
Any interim order made under subsection
( 5 )
shall not
remain in force for more than thirty days; but at any time within
such period the court may, if it considers it expedient so to do,
make a further interim order; so, however, that in no case shall
any interim order remain in force for more than sixty days after
the date of the first order made under subsection
( 5 ) .
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(7)
If the Children's Court by which an interim order is
made is satisfied on any occasion that, by reason of illness,
accident or other justifiable cause the child is unable to appear
personally before the court, any further interim order which the
court has power to make on that occasion may be made in the
absence of the child.
(8)
In making an order under this section for the
committal of a child to the care of a fit person or for placement
of a child in a place of safety, the court shall consider the child's
best interests and give priority to placing the child with a
relative or, if that is not consistent with the child's best interests,
committal or placement of the child as follows-
( a )
in a location where the child can maintain contact with
relatives and friends;
( b )
in the same family unit as the child's brothers and
sisters;
(c) in a location that will allow the child to continue in the
same school.
Power
to
take offender
15.-(1)
Any constable may take into custody, without
into
custody.
warrant, any person who-
( a )
commits, within his view, any of the offences
Second
Schedule.
mentioned in the Second Schedule;
( b )
has committed, or whom he has reason to believe to
have committed, any such offence,
if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that such
person will abscond, or if the constable does noit know and
cannot ascertain that person's name and address.
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