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Apprehension in case of escape.
Assisting escape or harbouring escaped child.
Liability of parent to prosecution in certain cases.
No. 11 of 1901.
REFORMATORY SCHOOLS.
ORMATORY
child. It shall be the duty of the magistrate to reconsider the amount of the contribution on receipt of an application from the Superintendent, or from the parent, for a revision of the order.
(3) The parent shall pay the sum named in the order monthly to the Captain Superintendent of Police, who may sue the parent for payment.
(4) A magistrate may at any time, on just cause being shown, revoke or vary any order made under this section.
Offences in relation to schools.
20. If a child who is ordered to be detained in a school, or is living out on licence from a school, or is being boarded out escapes from the school, or from the person with whom he is living out on licence or is being boarded out, he may, at any time before the expiration of his period of detention, be apprehended without warrant and brought back to the school.
21. Every person who commits any of the following offences :-
(1) knowingly assists or induces, directly or indirectly, a child who is detained in or living out on licence from a school or is being boarded out, to escape from the school or from any person with whom he is living out on licence or is being boarded out; or
(2) knowingly harbours, conceals, or prevents from returning to a school, or to any person with whom he is living out on licence or is being boarded out, a child who has so escaped, or knowingly assists in so doing;
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two months.
22.—(1) The parent of any child who has been found in such circumstances or has committed such an offence as has rendered him, in the opinion of a magistrate, liable to be dealt with under section 5 shall be liable to be prosecuted as for a criminal offence, and shall, if the magistrate is satisfied that the child has rendered himself liable to be
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord #1924.
1380
Apprehension in case of escape.
Assisting escape or harbouring escaped child.
Liability of parent to prosecution in certain cases.
No. 11 of 1901.
REFORMATORY SCHOOLS.
ORMATORY
child. It shall be the duty of the magistrate to reconsider the amount of the contribution on receipt of an application from the Superintendent, or from the parent, for a revision of the order.
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(3) The parent shall pay the sum named in the order monthly to the Captain Superintendent of Police, who may sue the parent for payment.
(4) A magistrate may at any time, on just cause being shown, revoke or vary any order made under this section.
Offences in relation to schools.
20. If a child who is ordered to be detained in a school, or is living out on licence from a school, or is being boarded out escapes from the school, or from the person with whom he is living out on licence or is being boarded out, he may, at any time before the expiration of his period of detention, be apprehended without warrant and brought back to the school.
21. Every person who commits any of the following offences :-
(1) knowingly assists or induces, directly or indirectly, a child who is detained in or living out on licence from a school or is being boarded out, to escape from the school or from any person with whom he is living out on licence or is being boarded out; or
(2) knowingly harbours, conceals, or prevents from re- turning to a school, or to any person with whom he is living out on licence or is being/boarded out, a child who has so escaped, or knowingly assists in so doing;
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two months.
22.-—(1) The parent of any child who has been found in such circumstances or has committed such an offence as has rendered him, in the opinion of a magistrate, liable to be dealt with under section 5 shall be liable to be prosecuted as for a criminal offence, and shall, if the magistrate is satisfied that the child has rendered himself liable to be
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord #1924.
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