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(1) ~ i i e n ; a child who has been brought bcforc a'cornpctent authority.under - - lo approved this 'Act, is found to be s'gering . from. ' a diseasc rcqhirlng prolonged mcdica1:- place Of ueal ment or from physical or mealil. complaint that will respond to tr~atmint, , child sucrer- ing from the competent: aulhorjly may send the chiId to any plam recognised to be an - dangerous approvcd placc in accordance with the rulcs madc under this Act for such period dimeand as it may think ncccssary for thc requircd treatment. its future . . ' . . .. . - disposal. 3 of1898-'. ':T (2) Wherc a ~ i i d is found to be smering from leprasy ar is OF unsound mind.: 4 OF 1912. ;-- , he shall be dalt with under the provisions of the Lcpors Act, 1898 or the , . Indian Lunacy Act, 1912, as thc case may be. . . . . . , . . , . . . , . . . , , . (3) Wherc a competent authority has tikin .action undbr syb-section (1). in ,the ; -' case of a child suffering from an infectious or , contagiors -disease, the . competent authority beforc restoring the, said child to his partner in marriag, if ' , there has been marriage, or to Ihc guardian, as the case may be, slull where it js sa~isfird that such action will be in the interst of the child, call upon his partner in marriage or the guardian, as the case may be, to satisfy thd court by submitC .. . ing to medical examinalion that such partner or guardian wjll not rejnfcct the - , chrld in respcct of whom the order has bcen passcd: . . Presumption . 33.(1) where it appears to a competed authority that a person brought beforcore- . . . and darer- lt under any o,f the provisions of this Act [otherwise than for the purposr or giving . . millalion of evidence) is a child the competent authority ,shall pakc. due . inquiry. as to the age. age of that'. person , and for 'that purpose shall t a b such -,evidcnc as may .lie. necessary -and shall record.. a finding whether the 'person 'is a , child or not, stating his age as nearly as may be. (2) No order of the competent authorily shall be deemed to have . bicome invalid merely by any subsequent proof that the person in rcspect of whom. the order has been made is noi a child, and the agc recorded by Lhe competent authority to be the age of the person So brought belore it shall, for thc purpose of this Act, be deemed to be thc true age, of that person. , - Circumsla-