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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND MAY, 1886.
Inspection of Schools. Certificates may be with- drawn.
(29 & 30 V. c. 117, s. 5.)
Resignation of certificate by Managers. (29 & 30 V, c. 117, s. 7.)
Liabilities of Managers as to youthful offenders received in Reformators Schools.
(29 & 30 V. c. 117, s. 8.)
Effect of withdrawal of certificate. (29 & 30 V. c. -117, . 9.)
Disposal of inmates on withdrawal or resignation of certificate.
(29 & 30 V. c. 117, s. 10.)
Publication of
grant, with drawal or resignation of certificate. (29 & 30 V. c. 117, s. 11.)
Power to inuko rules, &c.
(29 & 30 V. c. 117, s. 12.)
Officers authorized to convey or
bring back offenders to
School to have privileges, &c. of Constables, (29 & 30 V. c. 117, s. 13.)
4. Every certified Reformatory School shall from time to time, and at least once in every year, be visited by the said Superintendent or by any two Justices of the Peace appointed for that purpose by the Governor, and the Governor if dissatisfied with the condition of such School as reported to him, may withdraw the certificate, and may, by notice under his hand addressed and sent to the Managers of such School, declare that thic certificate is withdrawn as from a time specified in the notice, being not less than six months after the date of the notice.
5. The Managers of any certified Reformatory School may upon giving six months' and the executors or adminis- trators of a deceased Manager (if only one) of any certified Reformatory School may, upon giving one month's previous notice in writing of their intention so to do, résign the certificate given to such School; and accordingly at the expiration of six months or one month (as the case may be) from the date of the notice (unless before that time the notice is withdrawn), the certificate shall be deemed to be resigned.
6. The Managers of any certified Reformatory School may decline to receive any youthful offender proposed to be sent to them under this Ordinance, but when they have once received him they shall be deemed to have undertaken to educate, clothe, Edge, and feed him during the whole period for which he is liable to be detained in the School, or until the withdrawal or resignation of the certificate takes effect, or until the contribution out of money provided by the Colony towards the custody and maintenance of the offenders detained in the School is discontinued, whichever shall first happen.
Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to limit, or interfere with the right of any Manager of a certified Re- formatory School to receive into such School other inmates than those sentenced under this Ordinance to be detained therein.
7. Whenever the certificate is withdrawn from or resigned by the Managers of a Reformatory School, no youthful offender shall be received into such School after the date of the receipt by the Managers of the School of the notice of withdrawal, or after the date of the notice of resignation (as the case may be); but the obligation of the Managers to educate, clothe, lodge and feed any youthful offenders in the School at the respective dates aforesaid shall, excepting so far as the Governor may otherwise direct, be deemed to continue until the withdrawal or resignation of the certifi cate takes effect, or until the contribution out of money provided by the Colony towards the custody and mainte- nance of the offenders detained in the School is discontinued, whichever shall first happen.
8. When the withdrawal or resignation of the certificate of a Reformatory School takes effect, the youthful offenders detained therein shall be, by the order of the Governor either discharged or transferred to some other certified Reformatory School.
9. A notice of the grant of any certificate to a Reforina- tory School, or of the withdrawal or resignation of such a certificate, shall within one month be advertised by order of the Governor in the Hongkong Government Gazette.
10. The Managers of any certified Reformatory School may from time to time make necessary rules for the mana- gement and discipline of the School under their charge; but such rules shall not be contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, and shall not be enforced until they have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Governor; and no alteration shall be made without the approval in writing of the Governor in any rules so approved♦
11. Every officer of a certified Reformatory School author- ized by the Managers of the School, in writing, to take charge of any youthful offender sentenced to detention under this Ordinance for the purpose of conveying him to or from the School, or of bringing him back to the School in case of his esenpe or refusal to return, shall, for such purpose and while engaged in such duty, have all such powers, authorities, protection and privileges, for the purpose of the execution of his duty as a reformatory officer, as any constable duly appointed has within this Colony, by common law, ordi-
nance, or custom,
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