State Children Act Amendment Act 1921 (WA)

No. 14.] State Children. [1921.

STATE CHILDREN.

12° GEO. V., No. XIV.

No. 14 of 1921.

AN ACT to amend the State Children Act, 1907-1919.

[Assented to 15th, November, 1921.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:—

Short title.	1. This Act may be cited as the State Children Act Amend- ment Act, 1921.
No exce ption or

detention in default2. Notwithstanding anything contained in sections one

of paymentoffine hundred and fifty-five, one hundred and fifty-nine, and one

hundred and sixty-seven of the Justices Act, 1902-1920, or in section twenty-eight a of the State Children Act, 1.907- 1919, it shall not be obligatory upon the justices sitting as a Children Court to issue any warrant of execution or to im- pose any alternative of detention in default of payment of a fine by any child.

3. Section ten of the State Children Act, 1907-1.919, is amended by adding the following proviso at the end of the section, namely

Provided that 'when any recommendation has been made by the Court, such recommendation shall not be de- parted from without the consent of the Minister.

Amendment of

Section 18.

4. Section eighteen of the State Children Act, 1907-1919, is amended by deleting the proviso in subclause three.

Amendment of

5. Sections fifty-nine and sixty of the State Children Act,

1907-1919, are amended by the deletion of the word "State"

wherever it occurs before the word "child" therein.

Sections 59 and GO.

1921.] State Children. [No. 14.

6. Section sixty of the State Children Act, 1907-1919 is Amendment of 2 Section O.

amended by inserting in subsection two thereof after the word

"Act" the words "relating to a State child."

7.    The powers conferred upon justices in regard to ad- Admission to bat

mission to bail may be exercised in the case of children by the Secretary of the State Children Department, or by the Clerk of the Children Court, or by the officer in charge of any Government detention house.

8. Section nineteen of the State Children Act, 1907-1919 , Section 10. Amendment of

is hereby amended by the addition to paragraph (b) of the words "and section two of the Public Education Act Amend- ment Act, 1907," and by striking out in paragraph (c) the words "the Bastardy Laws Act, 1875," and substituting the words "Part V. and section one hundred and fifteen and one hundred and sixteen of this Act."

9. Sections forty-six and forty-seven of the State Chil- Amendment of Section 46.

dren Act, 1907-1919, are hereby amended by the deletion of the word "eighteen" and the substitution therefor of the word "twenty-one."

10. A section is added to Part VII. of the State Children Power for secretary or authorised officer

Act, 1907-1919, as follows :—	to enter places of
amusement.

95b. (1.) The secretary or any officer authorised in this behalf by the secretary may at all reasonable hours of the day or night enter any theatre, place of amusement, shop, factory, warehouse, or other place in which children are employed, or are reasonably supposed by him to be employed, and may make all such investigations and in- quiries relative to such children as he shall consider ad- visable.

(2.) No person shall resist or obstruct such secretary or officer in the exercise of any power under this section, and any person to whom such secretary or officer shall put any question pursuant to this section shall forthwith answer such question truthfully to the best of his know- ledge, information, and belief.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

11.    Whenever any child who has been committed to the Penalty for pnb-

care of the State or who has been committed to an institution belting conviction.

or who has been convicted under this Act attains the age of

No. 14.] State Children. [1921.

eighteen years, the fact of such committal or conviction shall not be maliciously disclosed to any person or admitted as evi- dence in any court of law.

Penalty: One hundred pounds.

Amendment of

First Schedule. 12.

The First Schedule of the State Children Act, 1907-

1919, is hereby amended by the insertion therein of a refer-

ence to an Act as follows :—

Date. Short Title. Extent of Repeal.

39 Vie. No. 8 . The Bastardy Laws Act, The whole.

1875

Consolidation. 13.

The State Children Act, 1907-1919, and this Act may be cited together as the State Children Act, 1907-1921, and all copies of the State Children Act, 1907-1919, hereafter printed by the Government Printer shall be printed as altered by this Act under the supervision of the Clerk of Parliaments, and the amendments made by this Act shall be noted in the margin. In any such reprint the short title shall be altered to the State Children Act, 1907-1921, and the sections thereof shall be renumbered in consecutive order. Sections seven, eight, nine, and eleven of the State Children Act Amendment Act, 1919, being placed following consecutively upon section twenty-two of the State Children Act, 1907-1919.