Child Act 2001 · Updated to 1 Jul 2023 · Part IX · Institutions
68. Approved school order to be delivered to the authority, etc., who conveys child to the school
Feedback & supportThe Court For Children which makes an approved school order shall cause it to be delivered to the authority or person responsible for conveying the child to the school, and the authority or person who conveys the child to the school shall deliver the approved school order to the person for the time being in charge of the school.
Court For Children
“Court For Children” means the Court For Children constituted under section 11;
The Court For Children which makes an approved school order shall cause all such information in the possession of the
approved school order
“approved school order” means an order made by a Court For Children sending a child to an approved school;
Court with respect to a child as is in the opinion of the Court should be known by the person for the time being in charge of the school, to be transmitted to the person for the time being in charge of the school.
Court
“Court” means the Court For Children or any other Court, as the case may require;
If a child has been ordered to be sent to an approved school, any person who knowingly harbours or conceals him after the time has come for him to go to the school commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both.
approved school
“approved school” means a school established or appointed under section 65 and includes a centre;
If a person authorized to take a child to an approved school is, when the time has come for him to go to the school, unable to—
find the child; or
obtain possession of the child, the Court For Children may, if satisfied by information on oath or affirmation that there is reasonable ground for believing that some person named in the information can produce the child, issue a summons requiring the person so named to attend at the Court on such day as may be specified in the summons and produce the child.
If the person referred to in subsection (4) fails to comply with the requisition under that subsection without reasonable excuse he shall, in addition to any other liability to which he may be subject to under this Act, on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit.
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