Certified Institutions

Cap. 121 · Revised Edition 2020 · 38 sections

s. 1Short title
s. 2Interpretation
s. 3Land, etc., for certified institution
s. 4Certification of institutions
s. 5Power of Minister to withdraw certificate
s. 6Resignation of certificate by manager
s. 7Effect of withdrawal or resignation of certificate
s. 8Disposal of inmates on withdrawal or resignation of certificate
s. 9Publication of grant, etc., of certificate
s. 10Official visitors
s. 11Duties of manager
s. 12Power to make rules
s. 13Evidence of documents
s. 14Children under sixteen convicted and liable to imprisonment may be sent to an institution
s. 15Age at which magistrate may order child to be sent to an institution
s. 16Sending to an institution of refractory child under sixteen years
s. 17Minister may transfer prisoner under sixteen years of age to an institution
s. 18Detention order
s. 19Conveyance to an institution
s. 20Operation of order may be deferred
s. 21Power of court to make detention order in certain cases
s. 22Children may live outside a certified institution under licence
s. 23Power to apprentice child in an institution
s. 24Provisions which every indenture of apprenticeship shall contain
s. 25Period of apprenticeship deemed part of term of detention at an institution
s. 26Punishment of children under apprenticeship misconducting themselves, etc
s. 27Power of the Minister to discharge children from an institution
s. 28Discharge of child attaining eighteen years
s. 29As to the ascertaining of a child’s age
s. 30Evidence as to reception in and discharge from an institution
s. 31Protection of employees in an institution
s. 32Rules
s. 33Saving
s. 34Wilful breach of rules
s. 35Offences
s. 36Summonses, notices or orders not invalidated for want of form
s. 37Service of notices
s. 38Evidence as to child being detained in the institution