(1) If the Secretary is satisfied on reasonable grounds that a child is in need of therapeutic treatment, the Secretary may by notice direct—
(a) the child to appear; and
(b) the child's parent to produce the child—
before the Court for the hearing of a therapeutic treatment application.
(2) A notice under subsection (1) must—
S. 246(2)(a) amended by No. 26/2023 s. 38.
(a) be issued out of the Court; and
(b) set out the grounds on which the Secretary intends to make a therapeutic treatment application; and
(c) be served on the child's parent and the child in accordance with section 594.