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YOUNG OFFENDERS (MISCELLANEOUS

Enactment.

Industrial and

Reformatory

chools

Ordinance.

PROVISIONS)

Amendment.

Ord. No. 66/67.

A287

(1) In section 13, at the end of paragraph (b), delete the words "section 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(3) Section 20 is repealed and replaced by the following-

"Discharge 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-

"Discharge by Director of Social Welfare.

Removal to another school.

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 on licence and the licence may be in such form and may be subject to such condi- tions as the Director thinks fit, and the Director may at any time revoke, or vary the conditions of, such licence.

(3) When a licence has been revoked, the Director may direct that the youthful offender to whom it related shall report in person to such place as may be specified in the direction; and if he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(4) Where a licence has been revoked and the youthful offender concerned is not discharged under subsection (1), any order made under subsection (1) of section 26 shall revive and be in force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 detained.

20B. 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.".

(Cap. 225.)