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And the court before which a person is brought as coming within one of these descriptions, if satisfied on enquiry of that fact, may order the child or young person to be taken out of the custody, charge, or care of any person, and to be committed to the care of a relative of the child or young person or some other fit person or institution (including a Certified Industrial School as defined by the Industrial and Ordinance Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932) named by the court 1932. (such relative or other person or institution being willing to undertake such care), until the child or young person attains the age of eighteen years, or for any shorter period, and may in addition to such order make an order that the child or young person be placed under the supervision of a probation officer, and the court may of its own motion, or on the application of any person, from time to time, by order renew, vary or revoke any such order.
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3. This Ordinance shall come into operation at the same Commence time as the Juvenile Offenders Ordinance, 1932, which it amends.
Objects and Reasons.
1. Section 2 of this Ordinance repeals the penultimate paragraph of section 17 (1) of the principal Ordinance and re-enacts it with the substitution in the first bracket of the words "including a Certified Industrial School as defined by the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932" for the words "including an Industrial or Reformatory School”.
2. The object of the amendment is to ensure that persons dealt with under section 17 (1) of Ordinance No. 1 of 1932 are not sent to Reformatory Schools but, where necessary, to Certified Industrial Schools, as defined by Ordinance No. 6 of 1932, in order to prevent the attachment of any unnecessary stigma to the children or young persons who are dealt with under section 17 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1932.
3. Section 3 brings this amending Ordinance into force. at the same time as the principal Ordinance, which it amends. Such coming into force will be on a date fixed by Proclamation under section 27 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1932.
September. 1933.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.