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CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION
( 3 )
The court may make interim orders under this section
upon application made by the Minister under this Act.
(4)
An order for the removal of any child under this
section shall operate as an authority to any Constable or other
person authorized to execute the order to enter any place at any
time of the day or night and with such assistance anld by such
force as may be necessary to remove the child therefrom.
58.-(1)
A child who runs away from a person to whose care
Escape from
the child has been committed under this Act may-
fit person.
( a )
be apprehended without warrant by a constable or an
authorized person as defined by section
13(2)
and
brought back to that person if that person is willing to
receive that child; and
( b )
if that person is not so willing, be taken before a
Children's Court which may make an order in respect
of that child as if the child had been brought before the
court in need of care and protection.
( 2 )
Any person who knowingly-
( a )
assists or induces a child to run away from
aL
person to
whose care the child has been committed; or
( b )
harbours or conceals a child who has so run away and
prevents that child from returning,
commits an offence against this Act.
59.-(1)
The Minister may at any time order a child under the
Transferof
persons
care of a fit person to be transferred to the care of some other
undercare
person.
of fit
persons.
( 2 )
Upon a child being transferred in accordance with the
provisions of subsection
( 1 )
the Minister shall cause notice
thereof to be sent to the person liable to make contributions in
respect of the child transferred.
60 . - 41 )
Subject to the provisions of this section, it shall be
Emigration,
etc.,of
lawful for a child who is, by an order under this Act, committed
to the care of a fit person, to emigrate or be taken out of Jamaica
with the written consent of the Minister.
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