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CHILD
CAREAND PROTECTION
(i) the charge is one of murder or other grave
crime; or
(ii) it is necessary in the person's interest to
remove the person from association with any
reputed criminal or prostitute; or
(iii) the officer or sub-officer has reason to believe
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that the person's release would defeat the ends
of justice.
(3)
Where a person apparently a child is apprehended
and is not released under subsection
(2),
the agency responsible
for the care and protection of children shall cause the person to
be detained in a juvenile remand centre until the person can
be
brought before a court.
Remand or
committal to
68.-(1) Any court on remanding or committing for trial a
juvenile
child who is not released on bail shall commit that child to
remand
centre.
custody in a juvenile remand centre named in the commitment,
to be detained there for the period for which the child is
remanded or until the child is there delivered in due course of
law:
Provided that in the case of a child who has attaine'dthe age of
fourteen years-
(a) the court shall not be obliged so to commit that child if
the court certifies that the child is of-
(i)
so unruly a character that the child cannot
safely be so committed; or
(ii) so depraved a character that the child is not a
fit person to be so detained; and
( b )
where the court so certifies, the child may be
committed to such place, including
an
adult
correctional centre, as may be specified in the
commitment warrant.
(2)
Subject to subsection
(3),
the court which makes an
order under subsection (I), committing a child to custody may,
on application-
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