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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 115

Duty of Ministry of Home Affairs to provide homes.

115.(1) The Ministry may by regulations make provision for the welfare of
children boarded out by [the Ministry] under section 114(1)(a).

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations under
this section may provide

(a)for the recording ... of information relating to persons with whom children
are boarded out as aforesaid and persons who are willing to have children so
boarded out with them;

(b)for securing that children shall not be boarded out in any household unless
that household is for the time being approved by [the Ministry] ...;

(c)for securing that where possible the person with whom any child is to be
boarded out is either of the same religious persuasion as the child or gives
an undertaking that the child will be brought up in that religious persuasion;

(d)for securing that children boarded out as aforesaid, and the premises in
which they are boarded out, will be supervised and inspected by [the Ministry]
and that the children will be removed from those premises if their welfare
appears to require it.

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