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Begging.
Restriction
on presence
of child in
court.
Power to
clear court
when child in
court.
CHILD CAREAND PROTECTION
41.-(1) Every person who-
(a) causes or procures any child; or
(b) having the custody, charge or care of a child, allows
the child,
to be in any street, premises or place for the purpose of begging
or receiving alms, or of inducing the giving of alms commits an
offence against this Act.
(2)
If any person while singing, playing, performing or
offering anything for sale in a street or public place has with him
a child who has been lent or hired out to him, the child shall, for
the purposes of this section, be deemed to be in that street or
place for the purpose of inducing the giving of alms.
(3) Where an offence under this section is committed by
a person mentioned in subsection (1) (b)-
(a) in the parish of Kingston or the parish of' St. Andrew,
such offence shall be triable by the Family Court-
Corporate Area Region; and
(b) in a parish within the geographical juris~dictionof a
Family Court established pursuant to Part
I1
of the
Judicature (Family Court) Act, such offence shall be
triable by that Family Court.
42.-41)
No child, other than an infant in arms, shall be
permitted to be present in court during the trial of any other
person charged with any offence, or during any proceedings
preliminary thereto, except during such time as the child's
presence is required as a witness or otherwise for the purpose of
justice or in such other circumstances as the: court may
determine.
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(2)
The court shall order the removal of any child who is
present in court in contravention of this section.
43.-41) Where, in any proceedings in relation to an offence
against, or any conduct contrary to, decency or morality, it
appears to the court that a person who is called as a witness
is a child, the court may direct that all or any persons, not being
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