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Appendix No. 16.

Section 17 of the Juvenile Offenders Ordinance, 1932.

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, performing, offering anything for sale, or otherwise), or being in any street, premises, or place for the purpose of so begging or receiving alms; or

(b) is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or visible means of subsistence, 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, under- going imprisonment; 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 Section 6 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, or Section 2 of the Punishment of Incest Ordinance, 1916; or

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

stitute; or

(g) is lodging or residing in a house or the part of a house used by any pro- stitute for the purposes of prostitution, or is otherwise living in circum- stances calculated to cause, encourage, or favour the seduction or prostitu- tion of the child; or

(h) is in the custody, charge or care of any person who has within the preced- ing twelve months been convicted of any offence under Section 26a of the Offences Against the Person Ordinance, 1865; or has at any time been convicted of an offence under Section 45A of the said Ordinance, as enacted by Section 3 of the Offences Against the Person Amendment Ordinance, 1929; 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 prostitution; or

() is found in any circumstances which are, in the opinion of the Court, likely

to lead to any injury to the health or morals of such person.

And the court before which a person is brought as coming within one of these descriptions, if satisfied on enquiry of that fact, may order the child or young person to be taken out of the custody, charge, or care of any person, and to be com- mitted to the care of a relative of the child or young person or some other fit person or institution (including an Industrial or Reformatory School) named by the court (such relative or other person or institution being willing to undertake such care), until the child or young person attains the age of eighteen years, or for any shorter period, and may in addition to such order make an order that the child or young person be placed under the supervision of a probation officer, and the court may of its own motion, or on the application of any person, from time to time, by order renew, vary or revoke any such order.

Provided that a child or young person shall not be treated as coming within the description contained in paragraph (f) the only common or reputed prostitute whose