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(1) If any person over t e age of fourteen years, Punishment who has the custody, charge or care of any child or £or ci:uelty any person over the age of ei hteen years who has'the !~dch;~~; custody ch_arge or care of an young person, wilfully persorut. assaults, ill-treats, neglects abandons or exposes su?h child or young person o. causes or procures such child or young person to ·b assaulted, ill-treated, neglected, abandoned or exp sed, in a manner likely to cause such child or yo ng person U:Q.necessary suffering or injury to his he 1th (including injury to or loss of sight, or hearing, r limb, or organ of the body, and any mental derang ment), that person shall be guilty of an offence, and li ble to imprisonment for a term which may extend to t o years or to a fine not exceeding one thousand doll rs, or to both sU:ch imprisonment and fine, and f r the purposes of this section a parent or other erson legally liab~.e to maintain ·a child or . young p so~ shall be d~.e ~e~ to have neglected him in a mann r likely to cause 1nJ~ry to his health, if he wilful y neglects to I?rovide adequate food, clothing, med cal aid, or lodging for the child or young person . . ~2) A person may he convi ted of an offence _under , ~h~s section, notwithstanding hat actual suffer~ng or ~nJury to health, or the likeli od of su~h ·suffering or · lUJury to health, was obviated y the action of another Person A · \3) person ·m ay be convic ed of an offence under this sect10n, notwithstanding the death of the chi~d or young person in respect whom the offence is . committed. A . _. - . No. 3·3 OF 1947. '. the trial of a person over th (4) Upon rs charged wi culpable homic~ age 0 four teen y~aro he had the c stody, charge or 1de of child of w ~al of any perso over t~e. age of e~are, or ! upon th~ tried with culpa le hom1c1de of a ighteell. -years c f~hom he had the usto~y, ch~rge or c Yollng persllonb o lawful for the C urt, if satisfied th are, it sha de . guilty of an off nee under this sect~t the accuse 1s .d 1011 · t of such chil or ung person, to find in respecd guilty of such offen e. accuse the Begging. 4. (l) Any person who ca ses or procures any child having the custody, ? arge or care of a ch1'lct' ~fiows that child, to be 1, ~ny street,. ~remises, o; place for the purp?s~ of be g1ng or rece1 v1ng alms, or of inducing the giving_ of. lms whe_ther or not there is any prete~ce of s1ng1 g, play~ng, perfor~ing, offering anything for sale o otherwise, shall be hable to imprisonment for three onths, or to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars, r to both such imprisonment and fine. (2) If a person having t e custody, charge or care of a child is charged with a offence under this section, and it is proved that the child was in any street, premises, or place for any uch purpose as aforesaid, and that the person charge allowed the child to be in the street, premises, or pla e, he shall be presumed to have allowed him to be in t e street, premises or place for that purpose unless the ontrary is proved. Detention of child in a 5.. (1) A police officer, or any person authorised. by a place of safety. Magistra~e or by a Protect r .or by the Commissioner or a Justice of the Peace m y take to ·a place of safe~y any child in respect of w om an offence under t~is r~rt of this Ordinance or ny offence involving bodily inJury to a child has been r there is reason to believe has been, committed. ' an?)ctr~hilt so taken to place of saf~ty, and al: detain d . w o seeks ref e or protection, maY ht before ea M a. place of saf ty until he can be broufke such order ~~i~trate's Cou and the Court m~Y. ~ub~ section or is mentioned in the next followin~th as circum~tanc:~ cause _the child to be d~alt -wiharge made against a:y admit a_ d require, until the ~ce as aforesaid with Y person 1 respect of any offe ived by the conv1·ct· regard to th child has been deterIIl · ,) . ion or d'ischa ge , of such person· CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS. (3) When it appears_ to 'a Co rt that an offence under this p~r~ of this Or~1nance o any offence involvin bodily 1nJ1;1ry to a ?hild has be n committed in respec~ of any ch1l~ who _is brought efore it and that it is expedient, in the interes~s of he child, that an order should be m~de_under this sub- ection, the Court may, without preJud1ce to any othe power under this Part of this Ordinance, make such order as circumstances require for th_e care and dete tion of the child until a reasonable time has elapse~ or a c~arge to be made against some pers~n for hav1n committed the offence, and, if a cha~ge 1s made aga nst any person within that time, until the charge has been determined by the conviction of that person and i case of conviction, for such further time not exceedi g twenty-one days as the Court which convicted ma direct, and any such order may be carried out not ithstanding that any person claims the custody of t e child.