51. In section 163 (duty of police to notify Department in certain circumstances)—
(a)in subsection (1) for “the Ministry of Home Affairs” substitute “the appropriate authority”;
(b)for subsection (2) substitute the following subsections—
“(2) Where an authority is notified under subsection (1) that a child or young person may be in need of advice, guidance or assistance, it shall make or cause to be made such enquiries as it considers necessary to enable it to decide whether it should take any action to safeguard or promote the child’s welfare.
(3) In this section “the appropriate authority” means the authority within whose area the child is ordinarily resident or, if that is not known, the authority within whose area the child is, and “authority” and “area” have the same meaning as in the Children Order.”.