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Amendment

of Ordin

ance No. 6 of 1932, s. 3.

Substitution

for Ordin- alice No. 6 of 1932,

5. 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)

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No. 6 of 1932,

s. 17 (4).

Amendment of Ordin- ance No. 6 of 1932,

s. 19 (2).

Amendment of Ordin- ance No. 6 of 1932,

s. 31 (1).

Commence- ment.

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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."

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 Section 6 (1) of the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932, is repealed and the following sub- section is substituted therefor:

6. (1) The managers of any certified industrial school may, upon giving six months', and the executors or 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 Section 8 (3) of the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932, is repealed and the following sub- section is substituted therefor :-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. in the case of youthful offenders, to some other certified industrial school the managers of which are willing to receive and detain them or to a reformatory school, and in the case of the others, to some other institution or certified industrial school the managers of which are willing to receive them.

6. Section 17 (4) of the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the deletion of the word "renew" in the third line of that sub-section.

7. Section 19 (2) of the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the substitution of the word "adaptations" for the word "adaptions" in the penultimate line.

8. Section 31 (1) of the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932, is amended (a) by the deletion of the word "detained" in the eighth line of that sub section, and (b) by the insertion of the words 'or young person" after the word "child" wherever that word occurs.

9. This Ordinance shall come into operation at the same time as the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932, which it amends.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 2 of this Ordinance repeals the definition of "youthful offender" in section 2 of the principal Ordinance and re-enacts it with the substitution of the word "offender" for the word "person". Section 2 also defines “child” and "young person' as they are referred to in sections 3 and 31 of the principal Ordinance.

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