§ Sub-section (2) If it appears to a justice on information on oath laid by an officer or other person authorised by the local authority that there is reasonable cause to believe that a defective is neglected or cruelly treated in any place within the jurisdiction of the justice, the justice may issue a warrant authorising any constable named therein, accompanied by the medical officer of the local authority or any other duly qualified medical practitioner named in the warrant, to search for such person, and if it is found that he is neglected or cruelly treated, and is defective, to take him to and place him in a place of safety until a petition can be presented under this Act, and any constable authorised by such warrant may enter, and if need be by force, any house, buildings, or other place specified in the warrant, and may remove such person therefrom.
§ Lords Amendment: In Sub-section (2), after the word "is" ["and is defective"], insert the word "apparently."
§ Lords Amendment agreed to.