Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
If, at any stage during the course of an inquiry, a competent authority is satisfied that the attendance of the child is not essential for the purpose of the iuqu'iry, the competent authority may dispense with his attendance and proceed with the inquiry in the absence of the child. Committal 31.(1) When a child who has been brought to approved before a competent authority under this l\.ct is place of f d b tr · f d' · · child suffer- oun to e suuenng rom a 1sease req uirmg pro- ing from longed medical ueatmen1. or physical or mental d'.lngerous complaint that will respond to treatment, the com- ~hseasfie and petent authority may send the child to any place its uture . d 1 · disposal. recogmsed to be an approve p ace in accordance with the rules made under this Act for such period as it may think necessary for the required treat- ment. (2) Where a chil:l is found to be suffering from leprosy or is of unsound mind , he shall be dealt with under the provisions of the Lepers Act, 1898 3 of iurn or the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912 as the case may be. 4 of 1'112 (3) Where a competent authority has taken action under sub-section (1) in the: case of a child suffering from an infectious or contagious disease, the com- petent aw hority before restoring the said child to -n his partner in marriage, if there has been such, or to the guardian, as the case may be shall where it is satisfied that such action will be in the interest of the said child call upon his partner in marriage or the guardian, as the case may be, to satisfy the court by sub- mitting w medical examination that such partner or guardian will not re-infect the child in respect of whom the order has been passed. Presumption 32.(1) Where it appears to a competent autho- ai:id d_eter- rity that a person brought before it under any of the :;n~ation of provisions of this Act (otherwise than for the purpose g • of giving evidence) is a child, the competent autho- rity shall make due inquiry as to the age of that person and for that purpose shall take such evidence as may be necessary and shall record a finding ., whether the pers1in is a child or not, stating his age as nearly as may be. (2) No order of a competent authority shall be deemed to have become invalid merely by any subsequent proof that the person in respect of whom the order has been made is not a child, and the age recorded by the competent authority _to be the age of the person so brought before it shall for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to 'be the true age of that person. Circumstan-