Committal to approved place of child suffering from dangerous disease and its future disposal

Committal to approved place of child suffering from dangerous disease and its future disposal.—(1) When a child who has been brought before a competent authority under this Act is found to be suffering from a disease requiring prolonged medical treatment or an ailment that will respond to treatment, the competent authority may send the child to any place recognised to be an approved place in accordance with the rules made under this Act for such period as it may think necessary for the required treatment.

1. (2) Where a competent authority has taken action under sub-section
2. (1) in the case of a child suffering from an infectious or contagious disease, the competent authority before restoring the said child or passing any order regarding the future disposal of the child to the guardian, as the case may be, shall, where it is satisfied that such action will be in the interest of the said child, call upon the guardian, as the case may be, to satisfy it by submitting to medical examination that such guardian will not endanger the safety of the child in respect of whom such order is passed.