CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 143

1964 c.21

143.(1) The Minister may at any time in his discretion discharge a child or
young person from the care of the person to whose care he has been committed,
and any such discharge may be granted either absolutely or subject to
conditions.

(2) The Minister, where it appears to him to be for the benefit of a child or
young person, may empower the person to whose care he has been committed to
arrange for his emigration; but except with the authority of the Minister no
person to whose care a child or young person has been committed shall arrange
for his emigration, and the Minister shall not empower such a person to
arrange for the emigration of a child or young person unless he is satisfied
that the child or young person

(a)consents, or

(b)being too young to form or express a proper opinion on the matter, is to
emigrate

(i)in company with a parent, guardian or relative of his, or

(ii)for the purpose of joining a parent, guardian, relative or friend,

(3) A person who arranges for the emigration of a child or young person in
contravention of subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be
liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

(4) An order committing a child or young person to the care of a fit person
may on the application of any person be varied or revoked

(a)if the order was made by a court of summary jurisdiction, by a juvenile
court acting for the same petty sessions district;

(b)in any case, by a juvenile court acting for the petty sessions district
within which the child or young person is residing;

(5) If, on a complaint under Part IX of the Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern
Ireland) 1964 made by the parent or guardian or any near relative of a child
or young person committed by any such order as aforesaid, any court having
power to vary or revoke the order is satisfied that he is not being brought up
in accordance with his religious persuasion, the court shall, unless a
satisfactory undertaking is offered by the person to whose care he has been
committed, either revoke the order or vary it in such manner as the court
thinks best calculated to secure that he is thenceforth brought up in
accordance with that persuasion.

(6) [The Ministry of Home Affairs] who are of opinion that it is desirable to
do so in the interests of a child or young person who has been committed to
their care may apply to a juvenile court by complaint made under Part IX of
the Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964, and that court may, if it
thinks it desirable in his interests to do so, revoke the order so committing
him and, where it revokes that order, may

(a)commit him to the care of another fit person, whether a relative or not,
who is willing to undertake the care of him; or

(b)order him to be sent to a training school; or

(c)order his parent or guardian to enter into a recognizance to exercise
proper care and guardianship; or

(d)without making any other order, or in addition to an order under paragraph
(a) or (c), make a supervision order with respect to him.

(7) Sections 99 to 101 shall apply where an application with respect to a
child or young person is or is about to be made to a juvenile court under
subsection (4) or (6) as they apply where a person is or is about to be
brought before such a court under section 94, 96 or 97, and as if the
reference in section 99 to those sections included a reference to that
subsection, and the reference in section 101(1) to section 95 or 97 were a
reference to that subsection.

(8) The Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 shall apply in
relation to a recognizance under subsection (6)(c) as it applies in relation
to a recognizance to be of good behaviour ....

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 143