ORDINANCE No. 14 of 1901.
Reformatory Schools.
No. 14 OF 1901,
An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Reformatory Schools.
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REGE 27 SEP 01
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HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor.
[7th August, 1901.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1901.
2. In this Ordinance and in any rules made thereunder, unless the context otherwise requires :--
"Magistrate" means a Police Magistrate.
"Expenses" (when used with reference to a child detained in a Reformatory School) includes the expenses of the custody, industrial training, education, and maintenance of a child.
"Order of detention" means an order of detention made in pursuance of this Ordinance.
"Parent" (when used in relation to a child) includes guardian and every person who is by law liable to maintain the child.
"School" means Reformatory School.
"Superintendent" means Superintendent of Reformatory Schools.
3. The Governor may, from time to time, make, and when made, alter or revoke, orders for any of the following purposes, namely:---
(a) to set apart any available site and buildings for the purpose of a school.
(b) to appoint fit persons to be respectively superintendent, masters, chaplains, and surgeons of schools, and also such subordinate officers for the service of schools as the Governor may think necessary.
(c) to discontinue the use of any school and appropriate the site and buildings thereof to any other lawful purpose.
(d) to remove children from one school to another.