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Children

liable to be committed to care of relative, etc. 8 Edw. 7,

c. 67, s. 58.

5 of 1938, 8. 45.

(5 of 1938)

(Cap. 216.)

(Cap. 212.)

Juvenile Offenders.

17. (1) Any person may bring before a juvenile court any person apparently under the age of sixteen years who- (a) is found begging or receiving alms (whether or not

there is any pretence of singing, playing, perform- ing, offering anything for sale, or otherwise), or being in any street, premises, or place for the pur- pose of so begging or receiving alms;

(b) is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or visible means of subsis- tence, or is found wandering and having no parent or guardian, or a parent or guardian who does not exercise proper guardianship; or

(c) is found destitute, either being an orphan, or having both parents or his surviving parent, or in the case of an illegitimate child his mother, undergoing im- prisonment; or

(d) is found destitute and having no parent within the

Colony; or

(e) is the daughter, whether legitimate or illegitimate,

of a father who has been convicted of an offence under section 5 or 6 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1938, or section 2 of the Punishment of Incest Ordinance; or

(f) frequents the company of any reputed thief, or com-

mon or reputed prostitute; or

(g) is lodging or residing in a house or the part of a house used by any prostitute for the purposes of prostitution, or is otherwise living in circumstances calculated to cause, encourage, or favour the seduc- tion or prostitution of the child; or

(h) is in the custody, charge or care of any person who has within the preceding twelve months been con- victed of any offence under section 27 of the Offences against the Person Ordinance; or has at any time been convicted of an offence under section 44 of the said Ordinance; or

(i)

is brought into the Colony for the purpose of prostitution or has been brought into the Colony from any other place by reason of her having been sent to such other place for the purpose of prostitu- tion; or

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