Juvenile Offenders.
may be apprehended without warrant and brought back to the place of detention in which he was detained.
(3) The Governor shall cause places of detention provided under this Ordinance to be inspected, and may make rules as to the places to be used as places of detention, and as to their inspection, and as to the classification, treatment, employment, and control of children and young persons detained in custody in a place of detention provided under this Ordinance, and for the children and young persons whilst so detained being visited from time to time by persons appointed in accordance with those rules.
21. The expenses incurred by the Commissioner of Police in respect of any place of detention provided under this Ordinance, including the expenses of the maintenance of any child or young person detained therein, whether detained on apprehension or committed to custody on remand or commitment for trial or in lieu of imprisonment or in default of payment of a fine, damages, or costs, shall be defrayed out of the general revenue.
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Expenses of maintenance of child or young person.
8 Edw. 7, c. 67, s. 110.
be invalidated by subsequent proof of age.
c 67, s. 123.
22. Where a person, whether charged with an offence or not, is brought before any court and it appears to the court that he is a child or young person, an order or judgment of the court shall not be invalidated by any subsequent proof that the age of that person has not been correctly stated to or presumed or declared by the court, and the age presumed or declared by the court to be the age of the person so brought before it shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be the true age of that person, and where it appears to the court that the person so brought before it is of the age of sixteen years or upwards, that person shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed not to be a child or young person.
Power to clear court whilst a child or young person is giving evidence in certain cases.
23. In addition and without prejudice to any powers which a court may possess to hear proceedings in camera the court may, where a person who in the opinion of the court is a child or young person is called as a witness in any proceedings in relation to an offence against, or any conduct contrary to, decency or morality, direct that all or any persons, not being members or officers of the court or parties
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Juvenile Offenders.
may be apprehended without warrant and brought back to the place of detention in which he was detained.
(3) The Governor shall cause places of detention pro- vided under this Ordinance to be inspected, and may make rules as to the places to be used as places of detention, and as to their inspection, and as to the classification, treatment, employment, and control of children and young persons detained in custody in a place of detention provided under this Ordinance, and for the children and young persons whilst so detained being visited from time to time by persons appointed in accordance with those rules.
21. The expenses incurred by the Commissioner of Police in respect of any place of detention provided under this Ordinance, including the expenses of the maintenance of any child or young person detained therein, whether detained on apprehension or committed to custody on remand or commitment for trial or in lieu of imprisonment or in default of payment of a fine, damages, or costs, shall be defrayed out of the general revenue.
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Expenses of of child or person.
maintenance
young
8 Edw. 7, c. 67, s. 110.
be invalidated by subsequent proof of age.
c 67, s. 123.
22. Where a person, whether charged with an offence Order not to or not, is brought before any court and it appears to the court that he is a child or young person, an order or judg- 8 Edw. 1. ment of the court shall not be invalidated by any subsequent proof that the age of that person has not been correctly stated to or presumed or declared by the court, and the age presumed or declared by the court to be the age of the person so brought before it shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be the true age of that person, and where it appears to the court that the person so brought before it is of the age of sixteen years or upwards, that person shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed not to be a child or young person.
Power to whilst a
clear court
child or young person is
23. In addition and without prejudice to any powers which a court may possess to hear proceedings in camera the court may, where a person who in the opinion of the court is a child or young person is called as a witness in any giving proceedings in relation to an offence against, or any conduct contrary to, decency or morality, direct that all or any c. 114. persons, not being members or officers of the court or parties
evidence in certain cases. 8 Edw. 7,
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