13. Production of neglected children before Boards.
(1)If any police officer or any other person authorised by the State Government in this behalf by general or special order, is of opinion that a person is apparently a neglected child, such police officer or other person may take charge of that person for bringing him before a Board.(2)When information is given to an officer-in-charge of a police station about any neglected child found within the limits of such station he shall enter in a book to be kept for the purpose of substance of such information and take such action thereon as he deems fit and if such officer does not propose to take charge of the child, he shall forward a copy of the entry made to the Board.(3)Every child taken charge of under sub-section (1) shall be brought before the Board within a period of twenty-four hours of such charge taken excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place where the child had been taken charge of to the Board.(4)Every child taken charge of under sub-section (1) shall unless he is kept with his parent or guardian, be sent to an observation home (but not to a police station or jail) until he can be brought before a Board.
