Methods of dealing with children or young persons
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(3)~(i) Any person or institution to whose care a child or young person is committed under this section shall, whilst the order is in force, have the like control over the child or young person as the parent and shall be respon- sible for his maintenance, and the child or young person shall continue in the care of such person or institution, notwithstanding that he is claimed by his parent or any other person, and if any person-
(a) knowingly assists or induces, directly or in- directly, a child or young person to escape from the person or institution to whose care he is so committed; or
(b) knowingly harbours, conceals, or prevents from returning to such person or institution, a child or young person who has so escaped or knowingly assists in so doing;
he shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprison- ment, for any term not exceeding six months.
(ii) Any court having power so to commit a child or young person shall have power to make orders on the parent or other person liable to maintain the child or young person to contribute to his maintenance during such period as aforesaid such sums as the court shall think fit, and may from time to time vary such orders.
(iii) Any such order may be made on the complaint or application of the person or institution to whose care the child is for the time being committed or on the complaint or the application of the Inspector General of Police and either at the time when the order for committal of the child or young person is made, or subsequently, and the sums contributed by the parent or such other person shall be paid to such person or institution as the court may name, and be applied for the maintenance of the child or young person or towards the cost of conducting the institution as the case may be.
(iv) Where any parent or other person has been ordered under this section to contribute to the maintenance of a child or young person, he shall give notice of any change of address to the Inspector General of Police and if he fails to do so without reasonable excuse, he shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(v) The Governor may at any time in his discretion discharge a child or young person from the care of any person or institution to whose care he is committed in pursuance of this section, either absolutely or on such conditions as the Governor approves, and may, if he thinks fit, by Order in Council make rules in relation to children or young persons so committed to the care of any person or institution, and to the duties of and remuneration of such persons or institutions with respect to such children or young persons.
(4) The parent or guardian of a child or young person who by his neglect to exercise due control shall conduce to the child or young person being found in any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and in default of pay- ment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month.
18. Where a child or young person charged with any offence is tried by any court, and the court is satisfied of his guilt the court shall take into consideration the manner in which, under the provisions of this or any other charged with Ordinance or law enabling the court to deal with the case,
the case should be dealt with, namely, whether—
offences.
8 Edw. VII,
c. 67, s. 107.
(a) by dismissing the charge; or
(b), by discharging the offender on his entering into a
recognizance; or