Act Number: 10

Act Name: The Orphanages and other Charitable Homes (Supervision and Control) Act, 1960

Year: 1960

Enactment Date: 1960-04-09

Long Title: An Act to provide for the supervision and control of orphanages, homes for neglected women or children and other like institutions and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development

Department:

Section 9: Power of inspection.
    Any member of the Board, or any officer of the Board authorised in writing by it in this behalf, by general or special order, may enter at all reasonable times any home for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Act or of any rules, regulations, directions or orders thereunder are being complied with and may require the production, for his inspection, of any document, book, register or record kept therein and ask for any information relating to the working of the home:
     Provided that no such member or officer shall enter any home or part thereof where there are females, except in the presence of two respectable women of the locality.
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