Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power of the Government to discharge and transfer children -(1) The Government may, notwithstanding anythmg contained in this Act, at any time, order a neglected or delinquent child to be discharged from the children's home or special school either absolutely or on such conditions as the Government may thmk fit to impose (2) The Government may, notwithstanding anything contamed in this Act, order- ( a) a neglected child to be transferred from on.• children's home to another, (b) a delinquent child to be transferred from one special school to another, or from a special school to a borstal school, or from a special school to a children's home , (c) a child who has been released on licence which has been revoked or forfeited, to be sent to the special school or children's home from which he was released or to any other spemal school 0r children's home or borstal school · Provided that the total period of the stay of the child in a special school or ch1ldren's home shall not be increased by such transfer . (3) ~he Government may, notwithstanding anything contamed m this Act, at any time, discharge a child from the l I I ~ \ I i I l t ! yl i 1 l I ( ·-~ 27 ·care of any person under whom he was placed under this Act, either absolutely or on such conditlOns as the Government may thmk fit to rmpose.