1967-HKRS28-8-34_Part04 — Page 5

Exactment.

(Cap. 1213

Criminal Procedure Ordinance.

(1788), 205.)

Industrial and Reformatory Schools

Ordinance.

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SCHEDULE.

Amendment,

s. 2)

Enactment.

Add the following new sub-heading and section after section 109-

Reaction th

of persona betongen 16

ad 21

of que 11 and 12 Gen. & c. 28. 3. 1700.

"Imprisonment of young offenders.

over

109A. (0) No court shell sentence a person of or

sixteen and under twenty-one years of age 10 imprisonment unless the court is of opinion that no olher method of dealing with much person is appropriate; and for the purpose of de- termining whether any other method of dealing with any such person is appro priate the court shall obtain and consider information about the circumstances, and shall take into account any information before the court which is relevant to the character of such person and his physical and mental condition.

(2) In this section "court" includes the District Court or a magistralc.”.

(1) In section 13, at the end of paragraph (5), dolate the words "bection 20 and substitute therefor "sections 20 and 20A.

(2) In subsection (1) of section 17-

(a) delete the words "two years" wherever they occur and substitute therefor "one year";

(b) delete the words “section 20" and substitute -

therefor "section 20A".

(3) Section 30 is repealed and replaced by the following-

*Decharge by

20. The Governor may at any time Governor. discharge a youthful offender from the

custody of any reformatory school.". (4) Add the following new sections after sec tion 20-

**Ducharge by Director

of Sochau

Weline.

20A. (1) Subject to subsection (1) of section 17, the Director of Social Welfare . may discharge a youthful offender from the custody of any reformatory school.

(2) The discharge of A youthful offender under subsection (1) may be do ficence and the licence may be in much form and may be subject to such condi- tions as the Director thinks ôt, and the Director may at any time revoke, or vary the conditions of, such licence.

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(3) When a licence has been revoked, the Director may direct that the youthful offender to whom it related shall report in

Juvenile Offenders Ordinance.

Kemoval to

Job De school.

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Amendment,

person to such place as may be specified in the direction; and if he fails so to report he may be apprehended without warrant by a police officer and taken to that place.

(4) Where a licence has been revoked and the youthful offcader concemed not discharged under subsection (1) any order made under subsection (1) of section 26 shall revive and be in force during the period for which the youthful offender is detajoed.

208. The Director of Social Welfare may at any time direct that a person de- tained in a reformatory school be removed from one such school to another such school.".

In section 15-

(a) delete the words "amely, whether and

substitute therefor→

"and subject to such provisions, may deal with the case in any of the following man.» mers or a combination thereof, namely--"; (b) delete the word "or" where it occurs at the end of each of the paragraphs (a) to (8).

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 15th day of November, 1967, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

(Secretariat GR 12/2856/640)

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

(mp. 226.j