Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
( 1 ) When a person alleged to be a neglected child is produced before a Board, it shall examine the police officer or the authorised person who brought the child or 'made' the report and record the substance of such examination and hold inquiry in the prescribed manner and may make such order in relation to I I , the child as it may deem fit. (2) Where a Board is satisfied on enquiry that a chiId is a neglected child and that it is expcdient so to deal with him, the Board may make an order directing [he child to be sent to a children's home fof the period until he ceases to be a child: Provided that the Board may, for reasons to be recorded, extend the period of such stay, but in nn u s e the period of stay shall extend beyond the time when'the child ' atrains the age of eighteen years, in the case of a boy, or twenty yeam in the cast: of a girI: provided Cuther that the Board may, if it is statis6ed that having regard t the circumstances of the mse it is expedient so to do, for reasons to be recorded, reduce the period of stay to such period as it thinks fit. (3) During the pendency of any inquiry regarding a cbild, the child shall, unless ' he is hpt with his parent. or guardian, be sent to an observation home or a pkm of safety for such p~riod as may be specified in the order of the Board : provided that no child shall be kept with his ,parent or guardian, if in the opinion of the Board, such parent or guardian is unfit or unable to exercise or does not excrcise proper care and control over the child.