A.D. 1933.
PART III.
-cont.
Bail or
young
persons arrested.
[CH. 12.]
Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.
[23 GEO. 5.]
for ensuring that a girl (being a child or young person) shall while so detained, being conveyed, or waiting, be under the care of a woman.
32.-(1) Where a person apparently under the age
of detention of seventeen years is apprehended, with or without warrant, children and and cannot be brought forthwith before a court of sum- mary jurisdiction, a superintendent or inspector of police, or other officer of police of equal or superior rank, or the officer in charge of the police station to which he is brought, shall inquire into the case, and may release him on a recognisance being entered into by him or his parent or guardian (with or without sureties), for such an amount as will, in the opinion of the officer, secure his attendance upon the hearing of the charge, and shall so release him unless-
Remand or committal to custody
in remand homes.
(a) the charge is one of homicide or other grave
crime; or
(b) it is necessary in his interest to remove him from association with any reputed criminal or prostitute; or
(c) the officer has reason to believe that his release
would defeat the ends of justice.
(2) Where a person apparently under the age of seventeen years having been apprehended is not so released as aforesaid, the officer of police shall cause him to be detained in a remand home until he can be brought before a court of summary jurisdiction, unless the officer certifies-
(a) that it is impracticable to do so; or
(b) that he is of so unruly a character that he cannot
safely be so detained; or
(c) that by reason of his state of health or of his mental or bodily condition it is inadvisable so to detain him,
and the certificate shall be produced to the court before which he is brought.
33.-(1) Any court, on remanding or committing for trial a child or young person who is not released on bail, shall, instead of committing him to prison, commit him to custody in a remand home named in the commitment, to be there detained for the period for
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