Children and Young Persons Act · s 78

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s 78Serious illness of child or young person detained

(1)

In the case of the serious illness of any child or young person detained under this Act in an approved school, an approved home or a remand home in which there are no suitable facilities, the manager may, on the certificate of a medical officer, make an order for his admittance to a hospital.

(2)

So long as any child or young person who has been admitted to a hospital under subsection (1) remains there, the person having the management or control thereof shall, at the end of every month, transmit to the manager a certificate signed by him that it is in his opinion necessary that he should remain in the hospital.