[23 GEO. 5.]
Children and
[CH. 12.]
Young Persons Act, 1933.
(3) A person detained pursuant to the directions A.D. 1933. of the Secretary of State under this section shall, while so detained, be deemed to be in legal custody.
(4) Any person so detained as aforesaid may, at any time, be discharged by the Secretary of State on licence.
Such a licence may be in such form and may contain such conditions as the Secretary of State may direct, and may at any time be revoked or varied by the Secretary of State.
Where a licence has been revoked the person to whom the licence related shall return to such place as the Secretary of State may direct, and if he fails to do so may be apprehended without warrant and taken to that place.
PART III. -cont.
in remand
54. Where a child or young person is found guilty Substitution of an offence punishable in the case of an adult with of custody penal servitude or imprisonment, or where a child or home young person would, if he were an adult, be liable to for im- be imprisoned in default of payment of any fine, damages, prisonment. or costs, the court may, if it considers that none of the other methods in which the case may legally be dealt with is suitable, order that he be committed to custody in a re- mand home named in the order for such term as may be specified in the order, not exceeding the term for which he might, but for this Act, be ordered to be imprisoned or committed to prison, nor in any case exceeding one month.
&c., instead
55.-(1) Where а child or young person is Power to charged with any offence for the commission of which order parent a fine, damages, or costs may be imposed, if the to pay fine, court is of opinion that the case would be best met of child by the imposition of a fine, damages, or costs, whether or young with or without any other punishment, the court may person. in any case, and shall if the offender is a child, order that the fine, damages, or costs awarded be paid by the parent or guardian of the child or young person instead of by the child or young person, unless the court is satisfied that the parent or guardian cannot be found or that he has not conduced to the commission of the offence by neglecting to exercise due care of the child or young person.
(2) In the case of a child or young person charged with any offence, the court may order his parent or guardian to give security for his good behaviour.
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