CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 114 Regulations as to boarding-out.

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 114

Regulations as to boarding-out.

114.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, [the Ministry of Home
Affairs] shall discharge their duty to provide accommodation and maintenance
for a child in their care

(a)by boarding him out on such terms (whether as to payment by [the Ministry]
or otherwise) as [the Ministry] may, subject to the provisions of this Act and
regulations thereunder, determine; or

(b)where it is not practicable or desirable for the time being to make
arrangements for boarding-out, by maintaining the child in a home provided
under this Part or by placing him in a voluntary home the managers of which
are willing to receive him.

(2) A child who is in the care of [the Ministry of Home Affairs] and has
attained the upper limit of compulsory school age may be accommodated and
maintained in any hostel (whether provided by [the Ministry] or not) which is
wholly or mainly intended for persons who have attained the upper limit of
compulsory school age but have not attained the age of twenty-one.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing [the Ministry of
Home Affairs] from making use, for the benefit of any child, of any such
facilities and services as are referred to in section 113(2), and for that
purpose arranging for his accommodation and maintenance in any suitable manner
not specified in the foregoing provisions of this section.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18

(5) Where under this section [the Ministry of Home Affairs] provide for a
child by maintaining him in a home or hostel not provided by [the Ministry],
the terms, whether as to payment by [the Ministry] or such other matters, upon
which the child is so maintained shall be such as may, ... be agreed upon
between [the Ministry] and the persons providing the home or hostel.

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 114