Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The court which makes an order for the detention of a child or delinquent child in an institution under this Act or for the committal of a child or delinquent child to the case of a relative or other fit person, may make an order to the parent or such other personliable to_ maintain the child or delinquent child for making or giving contri- bution to his maintenance if able to do so in the prescribed manner. (2) The court before making any order under sub-section (1) shall enquireinto the circumstances of the parent or other person liable to maintain the child or delinquent child and shall record the evidence, if any, in the presence of‘ the parent or such other person, as the case may be, or when his personal attendance is dispensed with in the presence of his counsel. (3) An order made under this section may be varied by the court from time to time. (4) The persons liable to maintain a child or delinquent child shall for the purposes of snb-section (1) include any person in Whose keeping the mother of the child or delinquent child is at the time when any order as aforesaid is made Whether he is his putative father or not and in the case of illegitimate, child his putative father: Provided that where the child or delinquent child is illegitimate and an order for his maintenance has been made under section3125 and 126 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) the court shall not ordinarily make an order for contribution against the putative father, but may order the whole oar any part of the payments aeeuring due under the said order for maintenance to be paid to such person or persons as may be named by the court and such sum shall be lgaid by him, towards the maintenance of the child or the delinquent chi . 19 (5) Where aparent or other person has been ordered under this section to contribute to the maintenance of a child or delinquent child he shall give notice of any change of address to the court which passed the order and if he fails to do so without reasonable excuse he shall be punishable with a fine which may extend to twentyfive rupees. (6) An order under this section may be enforced in the same manner as an order under sections 125 and 126 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974). (7) A child including delinquent child in remuneration [or pOSSessing property yielding income shall pay such proportion of his earnings as may be ordered by the State Government towards his maintenance.