191745-1932-Supplementary-Draft-Bill--Industrial-and-Reformatory-Schools — Page 9

Evidence of certification,

Service

of notice.

Order not to be invalidated by subse-

quent proof

of age.

Power to

tions.

132

32.-(1) The production of the Gazette containing a notice of the grant or withdrawal of the certificate by the Governor to or from an industrial school, or of the relinquish- ment of such certificate, shall be sufficient evidence of the fact of a certificate having been duly granted to or withdrawn from the school named in the notice, or reliquished by the manager thereof.

(2) The grant of a certificate to an industrial school may be proved by the production of the certificate itself or of a copy of the same purporting to be signed by the Colonial Secretary.

(3) A copy of the rules of a reformatory or certified industrial school purporting to be signed by the Clerk of Councils, shall be evidence of such rules in all legal pro- ceedings whatsoever.

33. Any notice required to be given to a manager of a reformatory or certified industrial school may be served on him by being delivered personally to him or by being sent by post or otherwise in a letter addressed to him at the school.

34. Where a person charged with an offence is brought before a court and it appears to the court that he is above the age of seven and under the age of sixteen years an order or judgment of the court shall not be, invalidated by any subsequent proof that the age of that person has not been correctly stated or presumed or declared by the court, and the age presumed or declared by the court to be the age of the person so brought before it shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be the true age of that person; and where it appears to the court that the person so brought before it is of the age of sixteen years or upwards, that person shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed not to be a youthful offender.

35. The Governor in Council may by order make regula- make regulations for carrying this Ordinance into effect, and in particular for prescribing the forms to be used for the purpose of legal proceedings thereunder or otherwise.

Saving.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 11 of 1901.

Commence- ment.

36. Save in so far as other provision is expressly made in this Ordinance, nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect any other law relating to children or young persons.

37. The Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1901, is repealed.

38. This Ordinance shall come into force on such date as may be fixed by proclamation of the Governor.