(1) When a child is kept in a children's home or special school, the !lacing °Lit onChief Child Welfare Officer may, if he so thinks fit, release the child from the licence.
children's home or special school and grant him a written licence for such period and on such conditions as may be specified in the licence permitting him to live with, or under the supervision of, any responsible person named in the licence willing to receive and take charge of him with a view to educate him and train him for some useful trade or calling.
(2) Any licence so granted under sub -section (1) shall be in force for the period specified in the licence or until revoked or forfeited by the breach of any of the conditions on which it was granted.
(3) The Chief Child Welfare Officer may, at any time, by order in writing revoke any such licence and order the child to return to the children's home or special school from which he was released or to any other children's home or special school, and shall do so at the desire of the person with whom or under whose supervision th e ch ild has been p erm itt ed t o live in acco rdance with a licence granted under sub -section (1).
(4) When a licence has been revoked or forfeited and the child refuses or fails to return to the special school or children's home to which he was directed so to return, the Chief Child Welfare Officer, may, if necessary, cause him to be taken charge of and to be taken back to the special school or children's home.
(5) The time during which a child is absent from a special school or children's home in pursuance of a licence granted under this section shall be deemed to be part of the time for which he is liable to be kept in custody in the special school or children's home :
Provided that when a child has failed to return to the special school or children's home on the licence being revoked or forfeited, the time for which he fails to return shall be excluded in computing the time during which he is liable to be kept in custody.
53. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other Provision in r!spect law for the time being in force, any police officer may take charge without of escaped children warrant of a child who has escaped from a special school or a children's home or from the care of a person under whom he was placed under this Act and shall immediately send the child back to the special school or the children's home or that person, as the case may be, and no proceeding shall be instituted in respect of the child by reason of such escape but the Manager of the special school or children's home or the person may, after giving the information to the competent authority which passed the order in respect of the child, take such steps against the child as may be deemed necessary.
54. Whoever— Penalty for abetting escape of children.
(a) knowingly assists or induces, directly or indirectly , a child detained in or placed out on licence from a children's home or special school to escape from the children 's home or spt cial school or from any person with whom he is placed out on licence_ or from the person with whom he is boarded out under the provisions of this Act ; and
(b) knowingly harbours, conceals or prevents from returning to the children's home or special school or to any person with whom he is placed out on licence or with whom he is boarded out under this Act, a child who has so escaped or knowingly assists in so doing ;
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shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two months or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees or with both.
55- (1) The competent authority which makes an order for sending a neglected child or a delinquent child to a children's home or a special school or placing the child under the care of a fit person may make an order requiring the parent or other person liable to maintain the child to contribute to his maintenance in the prescribed manlier.
(2) The competent authority before making any order under sub -section (I) shall inquire into the circumstances of the parent or other person liable to maintain the child and shall record evidence, if any, in the presence of the parent or such other person, as the case may be.
(3) The person liable to maintain a child shall, for the purposes of subsection (1), include in the ease of illegitimacy, his putative father :
Provided that where the child is illegitimate and an order for his maintenance has been made under section 488 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Central Act 5 of 1898), the competent authority shall not ordinarily make an order for contribution against the putative father, but may order the whole or any part of the sums accruing due under the said order for maintenance to be paid to such person as may be named by the competent authority and such sum shall be paid by him towards the maintenance of the
(4) Any order made under this section may be enforced in the same manner as an order under section 488 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Central Act 5 of 1898).
56. Any person in whose custody a child is placed in pursuance of this Act shall, while the order is in force, have the like control over the child as he would have if he were his parent, and shall be responsible for his maintenance and the child shall continue in his custody for the period stated by the competent authority, notwithstanding that he is claimed by his parent or any other person :
Provided that no child while in such custody shall be married except with the permission of t he com pe tent autho rity .
Delinquent child 51. In any area in which this Act is brought into force, the State Governundergoing sentence ment may direct that a delinquent child undergoing a sentence of imprisonat commencement ment at the commencement of this Act, shall, in lieu of undergoing such sentence, of the Act. be sent to a special school or be kept in safe custody in such place and manner as the Slate Government thinks fit, for the remainder of the period of the sentence ; and the provisions of this Act shall apply to the child as if he had been ordered by a children's court to be sent to such special school or, as the case may be, ordered to be detained under sub -section (2) of section 21.
Management of 58- (1) For the control and management of every observation home, observation homes, children home and special school established under this Act, a superintendent children homes and a committee of visitors shall be appointed by the State Government and and special schools.such superintendent and the committee collectively shall be deemed to be the manager of the observation home, children's home or special school, as the case may, for the purposes of this Act.
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(2) The governing body of an observation home, e:iildren's home or special school recognised under this Act shall be deemed to be its manager for the purposes of this Act.