Children may live outside a certified institution under licence

(1) The manager may at any time, with the sanction of the Minister, by licence in writing, permit any child to live outside the institution with any trustworthy and respectable person named in the licence, who is willing to receive, teach, train and take charge of him. (2) Any licence so granted shall not be in force for more than six months, but may, before the expiration of the six months, be renewed for a further period not exceeding six months, to commence from the expiration of the previous period of six months, and so from time to time until the child shall be lawfully discharged from the institution or the licence be revoked by the Minister. (3) The Minister may at any time by order in writing revoke any such licence, and order the child to return to the (4) At the termination of a licence for any cause whatever, and provided that the child has not reached the age of eighteen years, he shall be returned to the institution to be there 14 (Children’s Reformation) (5) Any child running away from the person with whom he is placed under a licence as mentioned in subsection (1) of this section or refusing to return to the institution on the revocation or expiration of his licence shall be liable to the same penalty as if he had run away from the institution itself. (6) The time during which a child is absent from an institution in pursuance of a licence under this section shall be deemed to be part of the time of his detention in the institution. (7) Where a licence has been revoked or has expired and the child refuses or fails to return to the institution, a court of summary jurisdiction, if satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds for believing that his parent or guardian or any other person could produce the child, may issue a summons requiring the parent, guardian or other person to attend at the court on such day as may be specified in the summons and to produce the child. (8) If such parent, guardian or other person, without reasonable excuse, fails to do so, he shall, in addition to any other liability to which he may be subject under the provisions of this or any other Act, be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars.