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shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
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29.-(1) The order of detention made by a court in Provisions pursuance of which a youthful offender is sent to a reforma- to tory or certified industrial school shall be in writing under person the hand of the presiding magistrate and the seal of the detained. court and shall be delivered with the youthful offender to the manager of the reformatory or certified industrial school and shall be sufficient authority for his detention therein, or in any other place to which he is transferred in pursuance of this Ordinance, in accordance with the tenor thereof.
(2) A youthful offender' whilst so detained and whilst being conveyed to and from a reformatory or certified indus- trial school shall be deemed to be in legal custody and if he escapes may be apprehended without warrant and taken to the place wherein he was detained or to or from which he was being conveyed.
(3) Every officer of a reformatory or certified industrial school authorised by the manager thereof or by the court to take charge of any youthful offender ordered to be detained under this Ordinance, for the purpose of conveying him to or from the school or of apprehending and bringing him back to the school in case of his escape or refusal to return, shall for that purpose and while engaged in that duty have all the powers, protection and privileges of a police constable.
30. (1) Every order, authority or direction which by orders. the provisions of this Ordinance may be given by the Governor of the shall be in writing.
(2) A copy under the hand of the Colonial Secretary shall be evidence of any such order, authority or direction purporting to be contained therein until the contrary is shown.
Governor.
31.-(1) The production of the order, warrant or other Presump- document, in pursuance of which a child is directed to be tions. sent to a reformatory or certified industrial school, or com- mitted to the care or custody of a society or institution, with a statement endorsed thercon or annexed thereto purporting to be signed by the manager to the effect that the child named therein was duly received into and is at the date of the signing thereof detained in such school, or by the secretary of such society or institution to the effect that such child was duly taken into the custody or care of such society or institution and is at the date of signing thereof still in their care or custody, or has been otherwise dealt with according to law, shall in all proceedings relating to such child be prima facie evidence of the identity and of the lawful detention or disposal of the child named in such order, warrant or other document.
(2) A school to which any youthful offender is ordered to be sent in pursuance of this Ordinance shall, until the contrary be proved, be presumed to be a reformatory or certified industrial school within the meaning of this ordi-
nance.