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(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- Expenses of ment from the Colonial Treasury of such sums of money certified

and industrial upon such conditions as he thinks fit towards the alteration, schools. 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 Power to contract with the manager of any certified industrial school contract with for the reception and maintenance therein of any youthful offender in consideration of such payments as are agreed on.

managers.

24. (1) Any court having power to order a youthful Expenses of offender to be sent to a reformatory or certified industrial offenders. 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 vouthful 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.