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Addition of

new Bectiona

14A, NB and LC.

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3. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 14, the following new sections

"Supervision order.

Recall order.

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Betson" i

Lesions

14A and 148.

IA. (1) The Director of Social Welfare may make a supervision order against a child or young person who is released from a place of detention after having been detained for less than 6 months under a detention order.

(2) A supervision order shall contain conditions that- (a) for a period from the date of his release until the oxpiration of 6 months from the date of the deten- tion order, the child or young person shall be subject to supervision by such organization or person as may be specified thereto; and

(6) the child or young person shall, while under such supervision, comply with such requirements, includ- ing requirements as to residence, as may be specified therein.

(3) The Director of Social Welfare may at any time vary or cancel a supervision order.

148. (1) The Director of Social Welfare may, if he is satisfied that a child or young person against whom a super- vision order is in force has failed to comply wtih any condi- tion or requirement of or made under the order, make a recall onder against such child or young person requiring bẩm to return to a place of detention, and thereupon much child or young person may be arrested and taken to a place of detention.

(2) A child or young person who has returned or been taken to a place of detention under subsection (1) may be detained until the expiration of 6 months from the date of the detention order.

(3) The Director of Social Welfare may at any time release any such child or young person, and a further super- vision order shall not be made in respect of such child or young persoÚ.

140. For the purposes of sections 14A and 148, "young person" includes a person who attains the age of 16 years during the period of 6 months after the date of the detendon order.".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 16th day of February, 1977.

1 assent.

Mr. M. Leba

Governor.

16th February, 1977.

An Ordinance to repeal and re-mact the Guardianship of Minors Ordin-

[17th February, 1977]

ance.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly primed copy of the said bin.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.