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CHILD CARE ,4ND PROTECTION
(2)
Where, under the powers conferred by this section, a
constable arrests any person without warrant, the officer or sub-
officer of the police in charge of the station to which that person
is brought shall grant the person bail in accordance with the Bail
Act, unless he believes, on reasonable grounds, that the release
of that person on bail would tend to defeat the ends of justice, or
to cause injury or danger to the child against whom the offence
is alleged to have been committed.
16.-(1) Where a person is charged with committing any of
chargmg
the offences mentioned in the Second Schedule in respect of two
offences and
or more children, the same information or summons may charge
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the offence in respect of all or any of them, but the person
charged shall not, if he is summarily convicted, be liable to a
separate penalty in respect of each child except upon separate
information.
(2) The same information or summons may also charge
any person as having the custody, charge or care, alternatively
or together and may charge him with-
(a) the offence of assault, ill-treatment, neglect, abandon-
ment, or exposure, together or separately; and
(b)
committing all or any of those offences in a manner
likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to
health, alternatively or together,
but when those offences are charged together the person charged
shall not, if he is summarily convicted, be liable to a separate
penalty for each.
(3)
Where a person is charged with any offence
mentioned in the Second Schedule, and the offence is a
continuous offence, it shall not be necessary to specify in the
information, summons or indictment the date of the acts
constituting the offence.
17.
Where in any proceedings with relation to any of the
offences mentioned in the Second Schedule the court is satisfied
in absence
that the attendance before it of any child in respect of whom the
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