The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Neglected Children’s Act, 1873.”

The words “and every such school shall be occupied by and used for males or females exclusively as any such Superintendent may direct,” shall be deemed to be expunged from sections three and four of “The Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act, 1867:” Provided that the sexes shall be strictly kept apart in separate dormitories, and that at meal times and during school hours they shall as far as practicable be kept apart.

Notwithstanding anything in “The Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act, 1867,” contained, it shall be lawful for any Resident Magistrate before whom any child shall be brought charged under the said Act with being a neglected child, upon the application of the Superintendent of the Province, upon proof to the satisfaction of such Resident Magistrate that the parent or parents of such child is or are of such immoral or dissolute habits as to be unfit to be allowed to exercise the rights of parental guardianship over such child, to order and direct that such parent or parents shall cease to have such rights of parental guardianship, and that the Master for the time being of the Industrial School to which such child is sent shall thereafter during the entire nonage of such child stand in loco parentis, and have and exercise in respect of such child all the rights of parental guardianship, subject to the direction of the Superintendent of the Province within which such Industrial School is situated.

If at any time subsequent to such order the parent or parents in respect of whom such rights of parental guardianship shall have been taken away shall apply to any Resident Magistrate, and shall prove to the satisfaction of such Resident Magistrate that he she or they is or are no longer of such immoral or dissolute habits, and so unfit as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for such Resident Magistrate, upon being satisfied to that effect, to order that such parental guardianship shall be restored to such parent or parents, and the same shall be restored accordingly.

It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province the powers vested in the Governor by section twenty-two of the said Act.