15.-(1) Any Court having power to make an order committing a child or young person to a reform school or to an institution or to the care of a fit person may, if it appears to the Court that the parent or other person liable to maintain the child or young person possesses the means to contribute in whole or in part to his maintenance, make an order on such parent or other person to contribute to the maintenance of such child or young person during the period of detention such sum as may appear to the Court that such parent or other person is reasonably able to contribute and the Court may from time to time vary such order.
(2) Any such order may be made on the complaint or application of the authority in charge of the reform school or of the institution or of the person to whose care the child or young person is for the time being committed, and either at the time when the order for the committal of the child is made or subsequently and the sum contributed by the parent or such other person shall be paid to such authority, institution or person making the complaint or application and shall be applied for the maintenance of the child or young person.
(3) Any sum payable under such order shall be deemed to be a sum due by the parent or other person named in the order to the authority in charge of the reform school or of the institution or to the person named in the order and shall be recovered in all respects in accordance with, and subject to, the provisions of any Law in force regarding execution of judgments as though the amount thereof had been recovered in a civil action in the Court in which the order was made.
(4) When any parent or other person has, under this section, been ordered to contribute to the maintenance of a child or young person, he shall give notice of any change of address to the Registrar of the Court which made the order and, if he fails to do so without reasonable excuse, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one pound.