Illegitimate Children (Affiliation Orders) Act, 1930

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Apprenticeship of illegitimate child.

6.—(1) Upon an application under this section in relation to an illegitimate child under the age of sixteen years in respect of whom a weekly sum is then payable under an affiliation order or in relation to an illegitimate child of the age of sixteen years in respect of whom a weekly sum was payable under an affiliation order immediately before he attained that age, a Justice of the District Court may order the putative father of such child or the personal representative of such putative father to pay such sum not exceeding fifty pounds as the Justice shall fix for the purpose of apprenticing such child to a trade.

(2) A Justice of the District Court making an order under this section shall by such order make such provision as he shall think proper to secure the due apprenticeship of the illegitimate child in respect of whom such order is made to a trade and on terms approved of by such Justice and for the due application of the sum payable under such order in or towards the discharge of the fee payable in respect of such apprenticeship.

(3) An application under this section may be made at any time after the illegitimate child to whom it relates has attained the age of fourteen years but not later than six months after such child has attained the age of sixteen years, and shall be made by the person to whom the weekly sum in respect of such child under an affiliation order is payable or, where such child has attained the age of sixteen years, to whom such weekly sum was payable or could be paid if it still continued.