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Conveyance of child to school and
detention therein.
Provision as to religious assistance.
Period of detention and discharge
from school.
No. 11.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [AD. 1900
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(1.) Where a Magistrate makes an order for the detention of a child in a school, the Magistrate shall specify in the order the school in which the child is to be detained and the child shall be delivered, with the order, into the custody of the master or other person in charge of the school.
(2.) The order shall be a sufficient authority for the conveyance of the child to the school and for his detention therein or in any other school to which he is transferred in pursuance of this Ordinance, during the period for which he is liable to be detained.
12. A minister of the religious persuasion specified in the order, or that to which the child appears to belong may visit the child at the school on such days, at such times, and on such conditions as may be fixed by the Governor, for the purpose of affording religious assistance to the child, and also for the purpose of instructing him in the principles of his religion; and every child detained in a school shall have reasonable facilities, so far as circumstances admit, for attending the religious services of his creed.
13. When a child is ordered to be detained in a school the order shall be in force until the child attains the age of eighteen years: Provided as follows:-
(1.) the child, on attaining the age of sixteen years, shall be entitled to be discharged from the school, and may, if the Governor so orders, be discharged from the school at any previous time;
(2.) it shall be the duty of the Superintendent to apply for the transfer or discharge of a child detained in a school, or to grant him a licence to live out of such school, at the earliest lawful date which is, in the opinion of the Superintendent, consistent with the welfare of the child;
(3.) where a child is discharged from a school in pursuance of this Ordinance, he may be so discharged either absolutely or conditionally, that is to say, on such conditions as to the disposal of the child on his discharge, and as to his conduct thereafter and otherwise, as the Governor may, by general or special order, direct;
(4.) where a child has been conditionally discharged from a school in pursuance of this Ordinance and fails to conform to any one of the conditions on which he was discharged, the Governor, on being satisfied of the failure, may revoke the order of discharge and order the child to return to the school and there remain for the period specified in the order (so, however, that he be not detained in the school after attaining the age of eighteen years), and if the child disobeys the order, he may be dealt with as if he had escaped from the school; and,
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