(1) Where a child is charged with any offence Ae dat ofehild or is brought before a court on an application for an order charged with an to send him to a certified school, his parent or guardian oven © may in any case, and shall, if he can be found and resides within a reasonable distance, be required to attend at the court before which the case is heard during all the stages of the proceedings, unless the court 1s satisfied that it would be unreasonable to require his attendance.
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(2) Where the child is arrested, the officer-in-c of the sole station to which he is brought shall cast the Parent or guardian of the child, if he can be foun AO ill warned to attend at the court before which the chi appear.
176 CHILDREN (1949 - East Pb. Act XXX}, t or guardian whose attenda
(3) The paren nis section shall be the patent all be required under f orc :
ouardian having the actual charge Ol, ontrol over, th child :
Provided that if such parent oF guardian is not father, the attendance of the father may also be re quire
(4) The attendance of the parent of a child shall not be required under this section in any Cas® where the chilq was before the institution of the proceedings removed from the custody oF charge of his parent by an order of a court.
(5) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require the attendance of the mother or the female guardian of a ther or female guardian does not accord.
d manners of the country appear in public, but any such mother or female guardian may appear b.fore the court by a pleader or agent.
Sion Notwithstanding anything to eth con child. tained in any law, no perso” who was a child at the date isSi fence shall be sentenced to of the commission of the off ] death or transported or committed to prison for any offence or in default of payment of fine, damages or costs :
Provided that a child who is fourteen years of age or upwards may be committed to prison where the court iff at he is of so unruly or of so depraved a chat:
acter that he is not a fit person to be sent to a certifie school and that none of the othe: methods in which the case may legally be dealt with is sutaible.
No, proceedings
28. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary coll vethe Cocaeaat tained in the Code, no proceedings shall be instituted and no order shall be passed against a child under Chapter Ul a child.
of the Code.
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: { - child toa certified an offence punishable with transportation or impris ment the court if satisfied on enquiry that it 18 expedie A so to deal with the child may order him to be sent ' certified school.
| j { af Commitment of 29. (1) Where a child is found to have C 1949 : East Pb. Act XXXIX.] cHpREN school ; and thereupon th :
the provisions of this Act e nes shall be subject to all tenced to detention in such sclioot been originally sen-