(Cap. 280.)
Detention centres.
Detention order.
"detention order" means an order of detention made under sec-
tion 401);
"recall order" means an order made under section 6(1) requiring
a person to return to a detention centre:
"relevant offence" means an offence punishable by imprisonment otherwise than for non-payment of a fine, but not an offence the sentence for which is fixed by law;
"supervision order" means an order for supervision made under
section 5(1):
"training centre" means an institution established as a training
centre under section 3 of the Training Centres Ordinance; "young offender" means an offender of or over fourteen and under
twenty-one years of age.
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3, The Governor may, by order published in the Gazette, appoint a place or building to be a detention centre, in which young offenders may be detained in custody.
4. (1) Where a person who is apparently a young offender is found guilty of a relevant offence the court may, if it is of the opinion that in the circumstances of the case and having regard to his charactor and previous conduct it is in his interest and the public interest that he should undergo a period of deter tion in a detention centre, în lieu of imposing any other sentence. make a detention order against him.
(2) A detainee shall be detained in a detention centre for such period, not less than one month and not more than six months, from the date of such order as the Commissioner may determine, having regard to the health and conduct of such person. and shall then be released.
(3) A detention order shall not be made against a person who has previously served a sentence of imprisonment or of detention in a training centre or a detention centre,
(4) A court shall not make a detention order against a young offender unless the Commissioner has informed the court that in bis opinion the young offender is suitable for detention and that a place is available for him in a detention centre.
(5) A court may, after conviction of a young offender. remand him in the custody of the Commissioner for such period, not exceeding three weeks, as the court thinks necessary to enable the Commissioner to form an opinion as to whether or not the young offender is suitable for detention.
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5. (1) The Commissioner may make a supervision order against a person who is released from a detention centre.
(2) A supervision order shall contain conditions that- (a) for a period of six months from the date of his release, the person released shall be subject to supervision by such organization or person as may be specified therein; and
(b) the person released shall, while under such supervision. comply with such requirements, including requirements as to residence, as may be specified therein.
(3) The Commissioner may at any time vary or cancel a supervision order.
(4) A person who fails to comply with a condition of a supervision order which has been made against him shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months.
6. (1) The Commissioner may, if he is satisfied that a person against whom a supervision order is in force has failed to comply with any requirement of the order, make a recall order against such person requiring him to return to a detention centre, and thereupon such person may be arrested and taken to a detention centre.
(2) A person taken to a detention centre under subsection (1) may be detained until the expiration of six months from the date of the detention order, or three months from the date of his being arrested under the recall order, whichever is the later. (3) The Commissioner may at any time release a person in respect of whom a recali order is in force, and a supervision order shall not be made in respect of such person.
7. If a person in respect of whom a detention order, a supervision order or a recall order is in force is sentenced to detention in a training centre or to imprisonment, the detention order, supervision order or recall order shall lapse.
8. (1) A police officer may, if he reasonably suspects that a detention order or a recall order is in force against a person and that such person is unlawfully at large, arrest such person and take him to a detention centre.
(2) Any period during which a person against whom a deten- tion order or a recall order is in force is unlawfully at large shall
Supervision order.
Recall order.
Imprisonment
of detained person, etc.
Arrest etc. of persons unlawfully
al large.