Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) When a juvenile or the child who has been brought before a competent authority under this Act, is found to be suffering from a disease requiring prolonged medical treatment or physical or mental complaint that will respond to treatment, the competent authority may send the juvenile or the child to any place recognised to be an approved place in accordance with the rules made under this Act for such period as it may think necessary for the required treatment. [xxxx] Omitted by Act 12 of 2011 dt. 07/09/11