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1988 Ed.]

Detention Centres

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(1A) An officer of the Correctional Services Department specified in a supervision order made in respect of a person against whom a recall order has been made or such other officer of that Department as the Commissioner may substitute for the officer so specified by a variation of that supervision order may, if he reasonably suspects that that recall order is in force against that person and that such person is unlawfully at large, arrest such person and take him to a detention centre. (Added, 14 of 1988, s. 2)

(2) Any period during which a person against whom a detention order or a recall order is in force is unlawfully at large shall be disregarded in calculating the period for which he may be detained under the detention order or recall order, unless the Governor otherwise directs in a particular case.

Transfers from detention centre to prison or training centre

8A. If a detainee is reported to the Governor by the Commissioner to be-

(a) physically or mentally incapable of full participation in the programme of a detention centre;

(b) exercising a bad influence on the other inmates of the detention centre;

or

(c) incorrigible,

the Governor may direct-

(i) that such detainee be detained in a training centre; or

(ii) that he be detained in prison for such term as the Governor may, after consultation where practicable with the judge or magistrate who made the detention order, determine, not exceeding the maximum term of imprisonment to which he was liable for the offence of which he was convicted;

and for the purposes of this Ordinance and for the purposes of the Training Centres Ordinance (Cap. 280) or the Prisons Ordinance (Cap. 234), according to whether such detainee is directed to be detained in a training centre or in prison, he shall be deemed to be a person who, on the day on which the detention order was made against him, had instead been sentenced to detention in a training centre or, as the case may be, to imprisonment for the term so determined by the Governor.

(Added, 84 of 1976, s. 8)

Visitors

9. (1) The Governor may appoint visitors for the purpose of visiting detention centres.

(2) A detention centre shall be visited by 2 visitors together at least once a month.

(3) Visitors shall exercise and perform the powers and duties conferred on visiting justices and visiting committees under the Prisons Ordinance.

Application of Prisons Ordinance

10. Subject to any regulations made under section 11 of this Ordinance, sections 9 to 12 inclusive, 17 to 21 inclusive and 24 of the Prisons Ordinance,