the medical officer who gave the direction shall report the fact to the magistrate appointed to preside over the children’s court of the district in which the child or young person is resident. (7) A magistrate to whom a report has been made in terms of subsection (6) may— (a) after due inquiry and after affording the parents and the guardian, if any, of the child or young person concerned a reasonable opportunity of being heard in the matter or without affording any such person such opportunity if his whereabouts are unknown or if in the circumstances it is not reasonably practicable to afford him such opportunity; and (b) if satisfied that any examination of the child or young person concerned or his clothing or any dental, medical, surgical or other treatment is necessary or desirable in the interests of the health of the child or young person concerned; by order in writing authorize the removal of the child or young person or his clothing to a hospital or other suitable place and the performance there upon the child or young person or his clothing of such examination or such dental, medical, surgical or other treatment as may be specified in the order. (8) Where authority for the performance of an examination or treatment has been given in terms of subsection (7), the person legally liable to maintain the child or young person concerned shall be liable for the cost of such examination or treatment. (9) A medical officer or medical practitioner who is entitled in terms of subsection (1) or (5) to examine a child or young person may at any time during the day and at any reasonable hour during the night demand admittance into any premises or room in which he has reason to believe that child or young person to be and may call upon the parent or guardian of such child or young person to produce such child or young person to him at that person’s residence. (10) Where a Government medical officer or a medical officer of a local authority has reason to suspect that a child or young person is in need of dental treatment, he may examine or authorize a dentist to examine that child or young person in order to ascertain whether he is in need of dental treatment this section, other than subsections (1) and (4), shall apply, mutatis mutandis, as if any reference to a medical officer or medical practitioner included a reference to that dentist. (11) A parent or guardian who fails to comply with a direction given to him in terms of subsection (4) or who, having complied therewith or after the child or young person or his clothing has been cleansed in terms of subsection (7), permits or allows such child or young person again to become infested with vermin or his clothing again to become verminous or filthy, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [amended by Act 22 of 2001, with effect from the 10th September, 2002.] (12) Any person who hinders or obstructs any other person in the performance of his duties in terms of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [amended by Act 22 of 2001, with effect from the 10th September, 2002.] 10 Begging and public entertainment (1) Any parent or guardian of a child or young person who allows that child or young person or any person who causes any child or young person— (a) to beg; or (b) to accompany him or any other person while he begs; or (c) to induce or to endeavour to induce the giving of alms; or (d) to perform or be exhibited in any way for public entertainment in a manner likely to be detrimental to the child’s or young person’s health, morals, mind or body; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level six or to