Civil Code (Cap. 16)

Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 134

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134. (1) It shall be lawful for the parents, if they are unable to control the child, to remove him from the family, assigning to him, according to the means of the par ents, such maintenance as is strictly necessary. (2) In any such case, the parents may also, where necessary and upon obtaining the authority of such court as may be prescribed by or under any law in force from time to time, place the child, f or such time as is stated in the decree, in some alternative form of care, which the court will accord ing to circumstances consider suitable, to be, at the expense of the parents, cared for and t reated in such manner as the court may deem conducive to the disciplin e and education of the child. (3) The demand for such authority may be made even verbally; and the court shall make the necessary order thereon without an y formal proceedings, and without giving its reasons therefor. Parents to be representatives of the children. Substituted by: XXI.1993.51.

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