Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
If, .at any stage, during the course of sin inquiry, a competent ,authorityis satisfied that attendance of 'the, child is not essential, for the purpose of the inquiry thc competent authority may .dispense with his attendance and proceed with the inquiry in the absence of the. child. . . ' I . . . , . , , , . I cornrnithl