Children of the State ; and thereafter such establishment shall, until abolished under this Act, be under the control of the Council. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, no State child shall be detained in any institution or under the control of the Chilarenover Council 18 Y-.
53, the Council or the governing authority of the institution, as the case may be, may debar any State child from residing and retiring with any relative of such child or with any suitable person approved by the Council or the governing authority for such period, " subject to this Act, as the Council or governing authority shall think fit; or may, during such time as aforesaid, send out any child of the State with any suitable pelson willing to receive such child for adoption or service, and as in the opinion of the Council or governing authority's opinion is capable of providing for and is fit to be entrusted with the care of such child. 55, any foster parent who commits or permits any offense against section 54 shall be liable to a penalty of ten & n d for each such offense , unless for good cause he shall be specially exempted by the Council. The application, freezing or placement of a State child by a Government authority shall be subject in all respects to the same conditions, restrictions and limitations as are prescribed in the case of State children to be apprenticed or placed by . the Council and shall also be subject to the supervision and control of the Council; and no State child shall be apprenticed or placed by any governing authority contrary to the directions of the Council.
Each such assignment shall be executed by the assignor and assignee in duplicate, and one part of the assignment so executed shall be forthwith forwarded by the assignor to the council or governing body, and the contract or license shall, for the purposes of this Act, be read and construed as if the assignee had originally been a party instead of the assignor. The Council may accordingly order and the person so appointed shall execute a new contract or license for the expired period of the original contract or license and on such terms or on such other terms and conditions under this Act as the Council may advise11.
No foster-parent shall change his or her place of residence change or residmc~
Every foster-parent who shall ill-treat, injure, or neglect Penalty for ill- treating Btate child
If the foster parent of any state child becomes insolvent, PART m. or they become unable to support and employ such child, or they will be insolvent when, of. just before removal from the province, the Council or administrative f oater-parenCindenturee and licenoea may. authority, as the case may be, may at the request of, or on behalf of, bp oancelledbyCaun-. foster parent or child. issue an order releasing and disr 011. the burden of the 'foster and the child, in question< from the contract of apprenticeship or contract and from every covenant and agreement included therein or implied thereby; and by the same or another order, he may refer the child to return to the institution he appoints there. Postpones consideration of the appeal and forwards the appeal against the foster parent. The Council may at any time by order require any State child who has been apprenticed or placed, either by the Council or any governing authority, to be immediately returned to the establishment in which such child was a ward before being apprenticed or installed. out or to be handed over to any other institution to be specified in the order; But the Council may, by the same or a separate order, and without incurring any liability for breach of contract or otherwise, cancel or revoke any contract of apprenticeship or agreement in respect of any child of the State, whether apprenticed or sent by by the Council, or any administrative body, and require the foster parent to immediately hand over such a child to the institution or person that will be specified in the order.
74, Any constable or officer of the Council may, without any warrant, apprehend such child and bring him to the institution named in the order, and may for such purpose any land or houses owned or occupied by the foster parent on or in which the child may be or is supposed to be. The visitors so appointed shall have and perform the same powers and duties in respect of such children as are conferred or imposed upon them by this Act, in relation to other Statc children; and all persons having the care or control of any child so to be visited shall, at the request of the visitor, produce such child and his equipment, and allow the visitor to examine them, and the sleeping and other accommodation and food for which provision is made. such child, in like manner and subject to like penalties for non-compliance as if such child were a state child apprenticed or expelled by the Board.
PART V
Any person who has received any such notice may, before Attachment maybe
Any person who, after receiving such notice, shall pay to sons trespassing or surrendering such money or property, otherwise than in accordance. At the time and place so appointed, or at any adjourned hearing, the Judges may further inquire into the means and ability of the complainant, and into the relation to such child of the persons sued, and into their severed abilities to in maintain or contribute to the maintenance of such child, and may make such an order that the periodic sum to be paid by the complainant henceforth is increased, reduced or varied, or suspended for a specified time or the former order be declared void, or order that the persons so sued, or some or one of them, shall henceforth pay for or contribute to the maintenance of the child, or may make such other order as is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act not as appears just.
Every such warrant may be registered in the same manner Wnrrantwhenregia-
The Council may, on payment of the fee prescribed in Schedule C, grant annual licenses to fit and proper persons to be foster mothers for children11 under two years of age, and may by such license fix the number of children authorized to be kept of the foster mother named therein and may at its sole discretion revoke or cancel such license. Any person, other than an inmate of an asylum subject to the control of the Relief Board, or than a near relative of the child, who is not licensed as a foster-mother by the Council, shall receive into his or her custody or custody of a child under two years of age for to adopt, bring up, foster or otherwise provide for such child for gain or reward other than his or her parent, and the mother or father of such child, who shall procure such child to be placed under the custody of such person custody, charge or custody, or shall permit such person to have the care, charge or guardianship of such child for such purpose as aforesaid, is guilty of an offense under this Act, and shall, on conviction, for each such offense forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. No information shall be given of any such offense except by the Council or an officer thereof.
109. Every residential home, whether licensed or not, and the home or residence of any licensed foster mother, shall be open at all times to inspection by any member or officer of the Council. Any license holder who fails to do so shall be guilty of an offense under this Act, and shall be liable for each such offense to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
PART VII
If an officer or employee of the council or of the governing authority of an institution is guilty of contravening any section of this section of a regulation for the protection of a child, he shall be dismissed. from his office or work, and liable to a fine not exceeding twenty soldiers, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months. On the day set for the consideration of the complaint, J usticos can decide the case in aum-. Any person authoriscci by signing under the seal of Persons responsible for the State's children to have.
~secretary of the Council that they are: List the children traveling to or from foster parents. Provided that no such regulation, amendment or repeal shall be inconsistent with this Act or the general spirit or purpose of the laws in force in the Province.
SCHEDULES
The State Children's Act and the said C. undertake to give security to the satisfaction of the Judges for the maintenance of the aaid child in an institution. d) Is under the guardianship of a person, to wit, who is unfit to have such guardianship. To Esquire, Commissioner of Police, and all constables in the province of South Australia, and to the superintendent (or matron) of the Industrial School at Magill [or other institution, as the case may be] in the said province: Whereas A. And whereas we have heard the matter of the said charge, and are satisfied that the same is founded, and whereas the said A.B.
I have ordered the said A. B. to be sent to the Reformatory Sc fiool at Magill, in the said province [or other instilution, as the case may be], to be there detained or otherwise dealt with under the '' State Children's Act this year from the day of this date or until he attains the age of 18, as the case may be), these shall be required to continue as. W%eseas, A. B., of [here State residence and occupation], has agreed with the "State Children's Council" to adopt and take charge of C. L), a State child, now under the care of the Council, for the period from this date: These are therefore to authorize the said A. D. , of , bcnrer thereof, who is authorized by the Council to receive the said A . B).
That F., of and S., of , are near relatives of the said C. and may contribute to (or pay for) the maintenance of the said C.
