Warning for failure to discharge obligations and for interference

Warning for failure to discharge obligations and for interference.-(1) When the Block Education Committee has reason to believe that the parent of any child to whom this Act applies and who is bound under section 8 to cause the child to attend a school, has failed to do so or that any person other than the parent is utilising the time or services of a child in connection with any employment, whether for remuneration or not, in such a manner as to interfere with the attendance of the child at a school, it shall warn him in writing that within one week of the receipt of the warning he shall cause the child to attend a school and shall refrain from utilising the services of the child as aforesaid.

1. (2) When a Block Education Committee is satisfied that the parent has failed to cause his child to attend school or that any person is interfering with such attendance of a child even after the warning mentioned in sub-section (1), the Block Education Committee or any member authorised by the Committee shall lodge a complaint against such parent or other person with the Judicial Magistrate having local jurisdiction.
2. (3) If the Judicial Magistrate is satisfied that the complaint is well founded, he shall pass an order directing the parent or other person to cause the child concerned to attend school regularly or to refrain from interfering with the attendance of the child, as the case may be, after a specified date. If the parent or other person fails to comply with such order, he shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding four hundred rupees for the first offence and five hundred rupees for every subsequent offence.