203413-1933-Supplementary-Draft-Bill--Industrial-and-Reformatory-Schools-Amendment — Page 1

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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 338.-The following bill is published for general information -

(C.S.O. 4305/31).

A BILL

[No. 22.10.8.33.-2.]

Short title.

Amendment of Ordin-

ance No. 6 of 1932, s. 2.

Amendment

of Ordin

ance No. o of 1932,

s. 3.

Substitution for Ordin- auce No. 6 of 1932,

s. 6 (1).

Managers or executors

or adminis- trators of sole

manager may re- linquish certificate.

Substitution

for Ordin-

ance No. 6

of 1932, s. 8 (3)

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Industrial and Reformatory

Schools Ordinance, 1932.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Amendment Ordinance, 1933.

2. Section 2 of the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the repeal of the definition of "youthful offender" at the commencement thereof, and by the substitution of the following definition:

"Youthful offender" means any offender who, in the absence of legal proof to the contrary, is, in the opinion of the court before whom such person is brought or appears, seven years of age or upwards and under the age of sixteen

years.

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3. Section 3 of the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the insertion of the words or young persons" after the words "in which children.”

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4. Section 6 (1) of the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932, is repealed and the following sub- section is substituted therefor :-

Or

6.--(1) The managers of any certified industrial school may, upon giving six months", and the executors administrators of a deceased manager (if only one) may upon giving one month's, previous notice in writing of their intention so to do, relinquish the certificate given to such school.

5. Section 8 (3) of the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932, is repealed and the following sub- section is substituted therefor:

(3) When the withdrawal or relinquishment of the certificate of an industrial school takes effect, the persons committed to the care thereof or detained therein shall be, by order of the Governor, either discharged or transferred,