Section 21:

21. Contributions to be made by parents (1) Any Court having power to commit a juvenile under section 19 may order the parent or other person liable by law to maintain the juvenile to contribute to his maintenance during the period mentioned in that section such sums as the Court thinks fit. (2) An order under subsection (1) may be made on the complaint or application of the institution to whose care the juvenile is committed, and either at the time when the order for the committal of the juvenile to its care is made, or subsequently, and the sums contributed by the parents or such other person shall be paid to such institution as the Court may name in the order to be applied in or towards the maintenance, or otherwise for the benefit of the juvenile. (3) Any parent or other person who has been ordered under this section to contribute to the maintenance of a juvenile, shall, where he changes his address, forthwith give notice of it to the institution which was, immediately before the change, entitled to receive the contributions, and, where he fails so to do without reasonable excuse, he shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 3,000 rupees. (4) The President may discharge a juvenile from the care of any institution to whose care he has been committed under section 19 and the discharge may be granted either absolutely or subject to such conditions as the President may approve. (5) The Minister may, if he thinks fit, make regulations as to the manner in which juveniles committed to the care of any institution are to be dealt with, and as to the duties and remuneration of such institutions to whose care they are committed, and may cause any juveniles so committed to be visited. [S. 21 amended by Act 48 of 1991; Act 15 of 1998.] [Issue 1] J6 – 12 Revised Laws of Mauritius