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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 145

145.(1) Where a person under the age of eighteen is in the care of [the
Ministry of Home Affairs] as a fit person by virtue of an order made by any
court under this Act, then, if it appears to [the Ministry] that it will or
may be for the benefit of that person so to do, [the Ministry] may,
notwithstanding anything in this Act or in the order, allow, until they
otherwise determine, the care of that person to be taken over by, and that
person to be under the control of, a parent, guardian, relative, next-of-kin
or friend of his.

(2) If, at any time while a person who has been committed by any such order as
aforesaid to the care of [the Ministry of Home Affairs] is allowed by [the
Ministry] to be under the control of any other person as described in
subsection (1), it appears to [the Ministry] that the order is no longer
necessary and might properly be revoked, [the Ministry] shall make an
application accordingly, by notice under Part VIII of the Magistrates' Courts
Act (Northern Ireland) 1964, to the court which, under section 143(4) has
jurisdiction to vary or revoke that order.

(3) In respect of any period during which, under the provisions of subsection
(1) a person who has been committed as aforesaid to the care of [the Ministry
of Home Affairs] is allowed by [the Ministry] to be under the control of any
other person as described in that subsection, contributions shall not be
payable under any contribution order made in respect of the first-mentioned
person under section 156.

(4) If

(a)a person committed as aforesaid to the care of [the Ministry of Home
Affairs] has been allowed by [the Ministry] to be in the care and under the
control of any other person as described in subsection (1), and

(b)[the Ministry] at any time determine under subsection (1) that he shall no
longer be allowed to remain in that care and under that control, and

(c)any instructions of [the Ministry] with respect to his return to [the
Ministry] are not complied with,

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