CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 156

1964 c.21

156.(1) A court of summary jurisdiction, acting for the petty sessions
district in which any person resides who under section 155 is liable to make
contributions in respect of any person received into the care of [the Ministry
of Home Affairs] under section 103, may make an order requiring the person
liable as aforesaid to pay such weekly sum on foot of those contributions as
the court, having regard to his means, thinks fit.

(2) A court which makes an order committing a child or young person to the
care of a fit person or sending him to a training school may at the same time,
and any court of summary jurisdiction acting for the petty sessions district
in which any person resides who under section 155 is liable to make
contributions in respect of a child or young person may subsequently at any
time, make an order requiring that person to pay such weekly sum on foot of
those contributions as the court, having regard to his means, thinks fit.

(3) An order made under subsection (1) or (2) is in this Act referred to as a
"contribution order" and the person against whom such order is made is in
this Act referred to as a "contributor".

(4) An application for a contribution order in respect of

(a)a person received into the care of [the Ministry of Home Affairs] under
section 103 or a child or young person committed to the care of [the Ministry]
as a fit person;

(b)a child or young person committed to the care of a fit person not being
[the Ministry]; or

(c)a child or young person ordered to be sent to a training school;

(5) A contribution order may specify the period during which it is to remain
in force and, unless such period is specified in the order, the order shall,
subject to any variation or rescission thereof made by a court under
subsection (6), remain in force

(a)where the order relates to a person received into the care of [the Ministry
of Home Affairs] under section 103, so long as he remains in their care;

(b)where the order relates to a child or young person committed to the care of
a fit person, so long as the order for such committal remains in force or
until he is allowed under section 145(1) to be under the control of a parent,
guardian, relative, next-of-kin or friend; and

(c)where the order relates to a child or young person ordered to be sent to a
training school, until he ceases to be under the care of the managers of such
a school (but so that no contributions shall be payable under any such order
in respect of any period during which he is out on licence or under
supervision from the training school);

(6) Where a contributor has not been present at the sitting of the court at
which the contribution order is made, a copy or certificate of the
contribution order shall be served on him by the person on whose application
the order was made and shall be binding on him unless within the time
prescribed by magistrates' courts rules he makes an application to a court of
summary jurisdiction acting for the petty sessions district in which he
resides for the rescission or modification of the order on the ground that

(a)he is not liable under section 155; or

(b)he is unable to contribute the sum specified in the order;

(7) Where a contribution order is made by [the Crown Court] it may be enforced
in like manner as a contribution order made by a court of summary jurisdiction
may be enforced under section 110 of the Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern
Ireland) 1964 and the said section 110 shall for the purposes of this
subsection have effect as if references therein to the same petty sessions
district as the court which made the order were construed as references to any
petty sessions district [in Northern Ireland].

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 156