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818 [ 19 OF 1886. ] REFORMATORY SCHOOLS .


per security, it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council upon such terms as to him may seem
advisable to set aside the sentence of the said Court
or Magistrate and to direct that the custody of the
said youthful offender be given to such person as
he shall appoint, and any person taking such youth
ful offender from such custody, or knowingly assist
ing directly or indirectly such offender to escape
from such custody , or knowingly harbouring or
concealing or preventing from returning to such
custody any youthful offender who has escaped
therefrom , shall be liable to the penalties incurred
under this ordinance for the offences aforesaid .
Discharge or 13. The Governor may at any time or ler any offender to be
removal by
order of the discharged from a certified reforinatory school, or to be removed
Governor.
[29 & 30 V. from one certified reformatory school to another, but so that the
c. 117,s.17.] whole period of detention of the offender in a reformatory school
shall not be increased by such removal.
Placing 14. The managers of a certified reformatory school may, at
offenders out
on licence . any time after the expiration of eighteen months of the period
[29 & 30 V. of detention allotted to a youthful offender, by licence under
č. 117, s. 18.] their hands, permit him to live with any trustworthy and res
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pectable person named in the licence willing to receive and take
charge of him .
Duration of
licence. Any licence so granted shall not be in force for more than
three months, but may at any time before the expiration of
such three months be renewed for a further period not exceed
ing three months, to commence from the expiration of the
previous period of three months, and so from time to time until
the youthful offender's period of detention is expired.
Revocation of
licence.
Any such licence may also be revoked by the managers of
the school, by writing under their hands, at any time before the
expiration of such period of three months, and thereupon the
youthful offender to whom the licence related may be required
by writing under their hands, to return to the school.
The time during which a youthful offender is absent from a
certified reformatory school in pursuance of aa licence under this
section shall, except where such licence has been forfeited by
his misconduct, be deemed to be part of the time of his deten
tion in the school, and at the expiration of the time fixed by his
licence he shall be taken back to school.
Any youthful offender escaping from the person with whom
he is placed in pursuance of this section, or refusing to return
to the school at the expiration of the time fixed by his licence,
or any renewal thereof, or when required to do so on the revo
cation of his licence, shall be liable to the same penalty if he
had escaped from the school itself.