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(c) by so discharging the offender and placing him
under the supervision of a probation officer; or
(d) by committing the offender to the care of a
relative or other fit person; or
(e) by sending the offender to an industrial school if such a course shall be authorised by law; or () by sending the offender to a reformatory school
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(g) by ordering the offender if a hoy to be whipped; or (h) by ordering the offender to pay a fine, damages,
or costs; or
(i) by ordering the parent or guardian of the offender
to pay a fine, damages, or costs; or
(j) by ordering the parent or guardian of the offender
to give security for his good behavior; or (k) by committing the offender to custody in a place
of detention provided under this Ordinance; or (1) where the offender is a young person, by sentene-
ing him to imprisonment; or
(m) by dealing with the case in any other manner in
which it may be legally dealt with.
Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as authorising the court to deal with any case in any manner in which it could not deal with the case apart from this section.
19.--(1) Such place or places of detention as may be Provision of required for the purposes of this Ordinance shall be pro- Places of vided or appointed by the Inspector General of Police.
(2) If more than one place of detention is provided or appointed the Inspector General of Police may determine that any such place shall be used for some only of the purposes for which places of detention are required to be provided and another place for the other purposes.
(3) It shall be lawful for the authority or persons responsible for the management of any institution other than a prison, whether supported out of public funds or by voluntary contributions, but subject in the case of an institution supported out of public funds to the consent of the Governor, to agree with the Inspector General of Police for the use of the institution or any part thereof as a place of detention on such terms as may be agreed upon between them and the Inspector General of Police.
(4) In selecting the place of detention to which a child or young person is to be committed the court or officer of police shall have regard to whether the place is suitable for the reception of convicted or of unconvicted persons, or of persons charged with serious offences or minor offences, as the case may be, and also, where practicable, to the religious persuasion of the child or young person.
(5) A child or young person detained in a place of detention may be, by order of the Governor, either dis- charged therefrom or transferred to some other place of detention.
detention.
8 Edw. VII, c. 67 s. 108.
20.-(1) The order or judgment in pursuance of which Provisions as a child or young person is committed to custody in a to the custody place of detention provided under this Ordinance shall be of children and young delivered with the child or young person to the person in
persons in charge of the place of detention and shall be sufficient places of authority for his detention in that place in accordance detention. with the tenor thereof.
8 Edw. VII,
c. 67 s. 109.
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