D. 1901.]
REFORMATORY SCHOOLS.
[No. 11.
951
Offences in relation to Schools.
in case of escape.
20. If a child who is ordered to be detained in a school, or is living on licence from a school, or is being boarded out escapes from the school, or from the person with whom he is living out on licence or is being boarded out, he may, at any time before the expiration of his period of detention, be apprehended without warrant and brought back to the school.
21. If any person commits any of the following offences; that is to say—
(1.) knowingly assists or induces, directly or indirectly, a child who is detained in or living out on licence from a school or is being boarded out to escape from the school or from any person with whom he is living out on licence or is being boarded out, or
(2.) knowingly harbours, conceals, or prevents from returning to a school, or to any person with whom he is living out on licence or is being boarded out, a child who has so escaped, or knowingly assists in so doing,
shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars or at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two months.
22. (1.) The parent of any child who has been found under such circumstances or has committed such an offence as has rendered him, in the opinion of a Magistrate, liable to be dealt with under section 5 shall be liable to be prosecuted as for a criminal offence, and shall, if the Magistrate is satisfied that the child has rendered himself liable to be dealt with under the said section, either wholly or in part through the neglect of his parent, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and, in default of payment, to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding one month.
(2) In case of any loss or damage to any person resulting from such action of the child as may have rendered him liable to be dealt with under the said section, the Magistrate may, in his discretion, further direct that the parent of the child shall pay in compensation for such loss or damage a sum not exceeding fifty dollars.
Supplementary Provisions.
23.—(1.) The Governor may from time to time appoint, with their consent, fit persons to constitute an Advisory Committee to the Superintendent for periods to be specified in such appointments.
Members of the Advisory Committee shall during the period for
escape or harbouring escaped child.
Liability of parent to prosecution in certain cases.
Appointment and duties of Advisory Committee