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liable to maintain the child, requiring him to cleanse properly the
person and clothing of the child within twenty-four hours after the
receipt of the notice.
(2) If the person to whom any such notice as aforesaid is given fails
to comply therewith within such twenty-four hours, the medical officer,
or some person provided with and, if required, exhibiting the authority in
writing of the medical officer, may remove the child referred to in the
notice from any such school, and may causa the person and clothing of
the child to be properly cleansed in suitable premises and with suitable
appliances, and may, if necessary for that purpose, without any warrant
other than this section, convey to such premises and there detain the
child until the cleansing is effected.
(3) Where any sanitary authority within the district of a local
education authority have provided, or are entitled to the use of, any
premises or appliances for cleansing the person or clothing of persons
'nfested with vermin, the sanitary authority shall, if so required by the
local education authority, allow the local education authority to use such
premises and appliances for the purpose of this section upon such
payment (if any) as may be agreed between them or, in default of
agreement, settled by the Local Government Board.
(4.) Where, after the person or clothing of a child has been cleansed
by a local education authority under this section, the parent or guardian
of, or other person liable to maintain, the child allows him to get into
such a condition that it is again necessary to proceed under this section,
the parent, guardian, or other person shall, on summary conviction, be
liable to a fine not exceeding ten shillings.
(5) Where a local education authority give notice under this section
to the parent or guardian of, or other person liable to maintain, a child
requiring him to cleanse the person and clothing of the child, the
authority shall also furnish him with written instructions describing the
manner in which the cleansing may be best effected.
(6) The examination and cleansing of girls under this section shall
only be effected by a duly qualified medical practitioner or by a woman
duly authorised as herein-before provided.
(7) For the purposes of this section "medical officer" means any
officer appointed for the purpose of section thirteen of the Education
(Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907.