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142.(1) The provisions of this section shall apply in relation to orders under this Act committing a child or young person to the care of a fit person, and in this section and sections 143 and 144 the expressions "child" and "young person" mean a person with respect to whom such an order is in force, irrespective of whether at the date of the making of the order, or at any subsequent date while the order is in force, he was, or is, a child or young person. (2) The Ministry may by regulations make provision for the welfare of children and young persons so committed, as to the manner in which children or young persons so committed are to be dealt with and as to the duties of the persons to whose care they are committed. (3) [The Ministry of Home Affairs] may board out children and young persons committed to their care for such periods and on such terms as to payment and otherwise as they think fit; but Para.(a) rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18 (b)in selecting the person with whom any child or young person is to be boarded out, [the Ministry of Home Affairs] shall, if possible, select a person who either is of the same religious persuasion as the child or young person or gives an undertaking that he will be brought up in accordance with that religious persuasion. (4) ... [the Ministry of Home Affairs] shall cause any children or young persons committed to the care of any person other than [the Ministry] to be visited in accordance with any regulations in that behalf made under subsection (2).
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