1983 Ed.]
Juvenile Offenders
CAP. 226
17. (1) The order or judgment in pursuance of which a child or young person is committed to custody in a place of detention shall be delivered with the child or young person to the person in charge of the place of detention and shall be sufficient authority for his detention in that place in accordance with the tenor thereof.
(2) A child or young person whilst so detained and whilst being conveyed to and from the place of detention shall be deemed to be in legal custody and if he escapes 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 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, and for the children and young persons whilst so detained being visited from time to time by persons appointed in accordance with those rules.
(Amended, 15 of 1973, s. 15)
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Provisions as to the custody of children and young persons in places of detention.
1908 c. 67, s. 109.
maintenance of child or young person.
1908 c. 67, s. 110.
18. The expenses incurred by the Government in respect of any place of detention, 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.
(Amended, 15 of 1973, s. 16)
19. Where a person, whether charged with an offence or not, is brought before any court and it appears to the court, after considering any available evidence as to his age, 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, after considering any available evidence as to his age, that the person so brought before it is of the age of 16 years or upwards, that person shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed not to be a child or young person.
(Amended, 33 of 1979, s. 2)
20. 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 to the case, their counsel or solicitors, or persons otherwise directly concerned in the case, be excluded from the court during the taking of the evidence of the child or young person:
Order not to be invalidated by subsequent proof of age.
1908 c. 67, s. 123.
Power to clear court whilst a child or young person is giving evidence in certain cases.
1908 c. 67, s. 114.
1983 Ed.]
Juvenile Offenders
¡CAP. 226
17. (1) The order or judgment in pursuance of which a child or young person is committed to custody in a place of detention shall be delivered with the child or young person to the person in charge of the place of detention and shall be sufficient authority for his detention in that place in accordance with the tenor thereof.
(2) A child or young person whilst so detained and whilst being conveyed to and from the place of detention shall be deemed to be in legal custody and if he escapes 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 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, and for the children and young persons whilst so detained being visited from time to time by persons appointed in accordance with those rules.
(Amended, 15 of 1973, s. 15)
13
Provisions as to the custody of children and young persons in places of detention.
1908 c. 67, s. 109.
maintenance of child or young person.
1908 c. 67, s. 110.
18. The expenses incurred by the Government in respect of any Expenses of place of detention, 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. (Amended, 15 of 1973, s. 16)
19. Where a person, whether charged with an offence or not, is brought before any court and it appears to the court, after considering any available evidence as to his age, 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, after considering any available evidence as to his age, that the person so brought before it is of the age of 16 years or upwards, that person shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed not to be a child or young person.
(Amended, 33 of 1979, s. 2)
20. 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 to the case, their counsel or solicitors, or persons otherwise directly concerned in the case, be excluded from the court during the taking of the evidence of the child or young person:
Order not to be invalidated by subsequent proof of age.
1908 c. 67, s. 123,
Power to clear court whilst a
child or young person is giving evidence in certain cases. 1908 c. 67, s. 114.
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