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in subsection (1), by deleting the words “or police officer”

wherever appearing;

by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:

“(1a)  If an Assistant Protector or a police officer who takes a child into temporary custody under section 18 is of the opinion that the child is in need of medical examination or treatment, the Assistant

Protector or police officer may, instead of bringing the child before a Protector under paragraph 18(3)(b), present the child before a medical officer.”;

in subsection (2), by inserting after the word “Protector”

the words “, Assistant Protector”;

by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection:

“(2a)  If a child who is taken into temporary custody by an Assistant Protector or a police officer—

is presented before a medical officer under subsection (1a); or

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is a patient in a hospital and left in the hospital under subsection (2), to be medically examined or treated, the Assistant

Protector or police officer shall notify the Protector of such action.”;

by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsection:

“(3a)  If an Assistant Protector does not take a child into temporary custody under section 18 but he is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the child is in need of medical examination or treatment, he may, with the approval of a Protector, direct in writing the person who appears to him to have the care of the child for the time being to immediately take the child to a medical officer.”; and

in subsection (4)—

by substituting for the words “subsection (3)” the words “subsections (3) and (3a)”; and