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PROBATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND)1950 - SECT 11

11.(1) The Ministry, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, may

(a)enter into arrangements with voluntary societies or other persons whereby
such societies or persons undertake, on such terms (including terms as to
payment by the Ministry to those societies or persons of such sums as may be
agreed upon) as may be specified in the arrangements, the reception and care
at institutions provided or managed by them of persons who may be required to
reside therein by a probation order; and

(b)where it appears to the Ministry to be impracticable to enter into such
arrangements, provide and maintain institutions for the reception and care of
persons who may be required to reside therein by a probation order.

(2) Where on the recommendation of a court it appears to the Ministry to be
necessary to do so for the well-being of any child or young person in respect
of whom a probation order or an order for conditional discharge has been made
under this Act the Ministry, without prejudice to its power under the
preceding sub-section, may, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance,
contribute towards the expense of maintaining that child or young person
elsewhere than at an institution during his probation period or
period of conditional discharge as the case may be.

(3) The Ministry with the approval of the Ministry of Finance may make
regulations providing for the payment, to such persons at such times and in
such manner as may be prescribed, of contributions by persons required by a
probation order to reside in any institution or place towards the cost of
their maintenance thereat where such persons are employed outside the
institution or place or are awaiting such employment and for the summary
recovery of such contributions.

(4) The Ministry may make rules for the regulation, management and inspection
of institutions provided by the Ministry under this section or in respect of
which arrangements have been entered into by the Ministry under this section.

(5) An inspector appointed by the Ministry to inspect any such last-mentioned
institution shall, on production (if required) of his authority in that
behalf, have power at all reasonable times to enter the institution and to
make such investigation of the treatment of persons required to reside there
as he may think necessary to ensure that arrangements entered into under this
section with respect to the reception and care of such persons are being
faithfully carried out.

(6) The probation officer responsible for the supervision of any person
required by a probation order to reside in any institution or place may, for
the purposes of discharging his duties towards that person under this Act,
visit that person at all reasonable times and on any such visit shall have
such access to that person as may be necessary for those purposes.

(7) Any person who obstructs any inspector or probation officer in the
exercise of the powers respectively conferred by the preceding sub-sections
shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

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