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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bills.

No. S 356.-The following bills are published for general information:-

(C.S.O 2/3690/30.)

A BILL

[No. 24-9.9.33.-2.]

Short title,

Amendment of Ordin- ance No. 1 of 1932,

8. 17 (1).

Ordinance No. 6 of 1932.

Commence ment.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Juvenile Offenders 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 Juvenile Offenders Amendment Ordinance, 1933.

2. Section 17 (1) of the Juvenile Offenders Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the repeal of the paragraph immediately preceding the proviso at the end thereof and by the substitu tion of the following paragraph therefor

And the court before which a person is brought as coming within one of these descriptions, if satisfied on enquiry of that fact, may order the child or young person to be taken out of the custody, charge, or care of any person, and to be committed to the care of a relative of the child or young person or some other fit person or institution (including a Certified Industrial School as defined by the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1982) named by the court (such relative or other person or institution being willing to undertake such care), until the child or young person attains the age of eighteen years, or for any shorter period, and may in addition to such order make an order that the child or young person he placed under the supervision of a probation officer, and the court may of its own motion, or on the application of any person, from time to time, by order renew, vary or revoke any such order.

3. This Ordinance shall come into operation at the same time as the Juvenile Offenders Ordinance, 1932, which it arends.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 2 of this Ordinance repeals the penultimate paragraph of section 17 (1) of the principal Ordinance and re-enacts it with the substitution in the first bracket of the words "including a Certified Industrial School as defined by the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932" for the words "including an Industrial or Reformatory School".