Clause 68

In the case of the serious illness of any child or young person who is detained in an approved school or approved home under the provisions of this Act, in which there is no suitable facilities for the child or young person, the manager of such approved school or approved home may, on the certificate of a registered medical practitioner, make an order for his admittance to an approved hospital.

So long as any child or young person who has been removed to an approved hospital under subsection (1) remains therein, the registered medical practitioner thereof shall, at the end of every month, transmit to the manager of the approved school or approved home where the child or young person was detained a certificate signed by him that it is in his opinion necessary that he should remain in the approved hospital.

In this section, “approved hospital” includes any hospital which the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, may declare to be a hospital for the purposes of this section.