CO129-537-2 Industry and Reformatory Schools Ordinance 1932 17-3-1932 - 29-4-1933 — Page 30

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Expenses of certified industrial schools.

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See Table of

Correspondanes

Power to

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Power to apprentice youthful offender.

21.-(1) The manager of a reformatory or certified industrial school may if the youthful offender consents there- to and with the approval of the Governor, bind any youthful offender detained under this Ordinance as an apprentice not- withstanding that his period of detention has not expiredX

(2) Any youthful offender who is bound as aforesaid and who absconds from the service of his master shall be liable to be arrested without warrant and brought before a court of competent jurisdiction and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months and may be ordered by the court to return to the place in which he was detained before his apprenticeship there to complete his period of detention, provided that such youthful offender shall not be detained longer than until he attains the age of eighteen

years.

Expenses of Certified Industrial Schools.

22. (1) The Governor in Council may order the pay- ment from the Colonial Treasury of such sums of money and upon such conditions as he thinks fit towards the alteration, enlargement, rebuilding or equipping of a certified industrial school, or towards the purchase of any land required for the use of an existing certified industrial school, or for the site of any school intended to be a certified industrial school.

(2) No payment for the alteration, enlargement, equip- ment, establishment or building of a certified industrial school or intended certified industrial school, or for the purchase of land, shall be ordered or made unless previously approved by resolution of the Legislative Council.

Expenses of youthful offenders.

23. The Governor or any person appointed by him may contract with contract with the manager of any certified industrial school managers. for the reception and maintenance therein of any youthful

offender in consideration of such payments as are agreed on.

Expenses of offenders.

24. (1) Any court having power to order a youthful offender to be sent to a reformatory or certified industrial school shall have power to make orders on the parent of the youthful offender to contribute for the whole or any part of the expenses of the youthful offender during the period of detention such sums as the court may think fit and may of its own motion, or on the application of any person, from time to time revoke or vary such orders or remit wholly or partially any payment ordered to be made under this section.

(2) Any such order may be made on the complaint or application of the manager of the reformatory or certified industrial school to which the youthful offender is ordered to be sent or on the complaint or application of the Inspector General of Police and either at the time when the youthful offender is ordered to be sent to the reformatory or certified industrial school or subsequently, and the sums ordered to be contributed shall be paid to such persons as the court may name.

(3) A court having power to make an order for contribu- tion under this section may issue an order requiring the parent to attend and show cause why an order for contribution should not be made, and an order for contribution under this section may be made on a parent who, having been required to attend, has failed to do so, but, save as aforesaid, no such order shall be made without giving the parent or guardian an op- portunity of being heard.

(4) A court making an order for contribution under this section shall have regard to the means of the person on whom such order shall be made.

(5) Any sums ordered to be contributed by a parent under this section may be recovered from him by distress or imprisonment in like manner as if the same were a fine legally imposed on him by the Court.

(6) Where an order for contribution has been made under this section the person on whom such order has been made shall give notice of any change of address to the Inspector General of Police and, if he fails to do so without reasonable excuse, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding One hundred dollars.

Offences in relation to Reformatory and Certified Industrial Schools.

25. Any youthful offender detained in a reformatory Punishment for "child"

or certified industrial school who-

(a) wilfully neglects or wilfully refuses to conform

to the rules thereof; or

(b) is guilty of wilful insubordination against the

discipline thereof;

shall be liable to be punished in the manner prescribed by the rules of the said reformatory or certified industrial school.

of refractory offender.

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society, Fi

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for "for every offence" for the pais tales"

26. Any youthful offender detained in a reformatory Escape of

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for "child"? or certified industrial school who escapes therefrom may, at offender. Refume to socialis any time before the expiration of his period of detention, be apprehended without warrant and brought back to the place in which he was detained there to complete his period of detention, provided that such youthful offender shall not be detained longer than until he attains the age of eighteen

vears.

See Table of Conrespondence.

of detained

27. (1) Any youthful offender who during his period Prosecution for "child". of detention in a reformatory or certified industrial school seine

Reference & society, commits any crime or offence against the laws of the Colony mitting onistas

ete. shall be liable to be prosecuted before the courts of the

for "proper". Colony on account of such offence.

(2) If found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment on account thereof, he shall, after completing the term of such imprisonment, be taken back to the reformatory or certified industrial school wherein he was detained or such other reformatory or certified industrial school as the Governor may direct there to complete his period of detention, provided that such youthful offender shall not be detained longer than until he attains the age of eighteen years.

28. Any person who---

offence.

for "child" Reference

school, th„

assisting

escape.

(a) Knowingly assists or induces, directly or indirect- Penalties for

from any ly, a youthful offender to escape reformatory or certified industrial school where if in he is detained; or

omitted.

for "child"

to society, the,

omitted.

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