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46 PART VII EXPENSES AND CONTRIBUTIONS Contributions by parents or guardians

79. Where an order has been made by a Juvenile Court under any of the provisions of this Act committing a child or young person to the care of a fit person, or sending the child or young person to a place of safety, place of detention, an approved school or approved home, it shall be the duty of a parent or guardian or other person having the custody of the child or young person to make contributions in respect of the maintenance of the child or young person.

Contribution order

80.—(1) When an order has been made by a Juvenile Court committing a child or young person to the care of a fit person or sending the child or young person to a place of safety, a place of detention, a hostel, an approved school or approved home, the Court which makes the order may, at the same time or subsequently, make an order (referred to in this section as a contribution order) on the parent or guardian or person having the custody of the child or young person requiring him to contribute such weekly or monthly sum as the Court, having regard to the means of the parent, guardian or person having the custody of the child or young person, thinks fit.

(2) An order made under subsection (1) may be made against a parent or guardian or person having the custody of the child or young person, who, having been required to attend, has failed to do so; and subject to that, no such order shall be made without giving the parent or guardian or person having the custody of the child or young person an opportunity to be heard.

(3) A contribution order shall remain in force, in the case of a child or young person committed to the care of a fit person, so long as the order for his committal is in force, and in the case of a child or young person ordered to be sent to a place of safety, place of detention, an approved school or approved home until he ceases to be under the care of the person in charge for the time being of such place of safety, place of detention, approved school, or approved home except that no contribution shall be payable under a contribution order in respect of