CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 129 After-care of children formerly in care of voluntary organisations.

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 129

After-care of children formerly in care of voluntary organisations.

129.(1) The Ministry may make regulations as to the conduct of voluntary homes
and for securing the welfare of the children therein or boarded out therefrom
and regulations under this section may in particular

(a)impose requirements as to the accommodation and equipment to be provided in
homes, authorise the Ministry to give directions prohibiting the provision for
the children in any home of clothing of any description specified in the
directions, and impose requirements as to the medical arrangements to be made
for protecting the health of the children in the homes;

(b)require the furnishing to the Ministry of information as to the facilities
provided for the parents and guardians of children in the homes to visit and
communicate with the children, and authorise the Ministry to give directions
as to the provision of such facilities;

(c)authorise the Ministry to give directions limiting the number of children
who may at any one time be accommodated in any particular home;

(d)provide for consultation with the Ministry as to applicants for appointment
to the charge of a home and empower the Ministry to prohibit the appointment
of any particular applicant therefor, except in the cases, if any, in which
the regulations dispense with such consultation by reason that the person to
be appointed possesses such qualifications as may be prescribed by the
regulations;

(e)require notice to be given to the Ministry of any change of the person in
charge of a home;

(f)require the furnishing to the Ministry, at such times and in such form as
may be prescribed, of such particulars as may be prescribed with respect to
the staff of such homes or to children for the time being in, or admitted or
received into homes and to children boarded out or discharged from homes; and

(g)with respect to children boarded out from homes, provide for any matter
that may be provided for under section 115(2);

(2) The Ministry may require the person in charge of a voluntary home to hand
over any child accommodated in the voluntary home to [the Ministry of Home
Affairs] with a view to the child's being boarded out by [the Ministry], and
the child shall thereupon be deemed to have come within the care of [the
Ministry] under section 103.

(3) Where any regulation under this section provides that this subsection
shall have effect in relation thereto, any person who contravenes the
regulation or any requirement made or direction given under the regulation
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a
fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

S.130 rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 129