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Rh in accordance with the provision of any law in force for the time being regulating appeals to the High Court from a Magistrate’s Court. Children and Young Persons in Need of Care and Protection Definition

47.—(1) For the purposes of this Act, “a child or young person in need of care or protection” means a person who is—
 * (a) a child or young person who, having no parent or guardian or a parent or guardian unfit to exercise proper care and guardianship or not exercising proper care and guardianship, is either falling into bad associations, or exposed to moral danger, or beyond control;
 * (b) a child or young person who uses or inhales any intoxicating substance for the purpose of inducing or causing in himself a state of intoxication; or
 * (c) a child or young person who—
 * (i) being a person in respect of whom any of the offences under Part II has been committed;
 * (ii) being a member of the same household as a child or young person in respect of whom an offence under Part II has been committed; or
 * (iii) being a member of the same household as a person who has been convicted of an offence under Part II in respect of a child or young person,
 * requires care or protection.

(2) For the purpose of this section, the fact that a child or young person is found destitute, or is found wandering without any settled place of abode and without visible means of subsistence, or is found begging or receiving alms (whether or not there is any pretence of singing, playing, performing or offering anything for sale), or is found loitering for the purpose of so begging or receiving alms or is found engaged in carrying out illegal lotteries, illegal hawking, gambling or other undesirable activities shall be evidence that he is exposed to moral danger.