Child Care Act, 1991

PART IV

Care Proceedings

Duty of health board to institute proceedings.

16.—Where it appears to a health board with respect to a child who resides or is found in its area that he requires care or protection which he is unlikely to receive unless a court makes a care order or a supervision order in respect of him, it shall be the duty of the health board to make application for a care order or a supervision order, as it thinks fit.