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Section 210: Persons prohibited from receiving foster children.

Public Health Act 1936 · 1936 c. 49View on legislation.gov.uk

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Part VII: Notification of Births; Maternity and Child Welfare, and Child Life Protection.

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A foster child shall not without the consent of the welfare authority be kept—

by any person from whose care any child or infant has been removed under this Part of this Act, Part I of the Children Act, 1908, or the Infant Life Protection Act, 1897; or
in any premises from which any child or infant has been removed under this Part of this Act or Part I of the Children Act, 1908, by reason of the premises being dangerous or insanitary, or under the Infant Life Protection Act, 1897, by reason of the premises being so unfit as to endanger the health of the child or infant; or
by any person who has been convicted of any offence under Part I of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, or Part II of the Children Act, 1908, or any offence of cruelty under the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act, 1904,

and any person keeping a foster child contrary to this section, or causing a foster child to be so kept, shall be guilty of an offence.

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