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CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION
Restriction on
committal to
juvenile
correctional
centre.
Special
provisions
relating to
probation.
specify a period which that child should serve before becoming
eligible for parole.
(4)
A child shall not be sentenced to imprisonment,
whether with or without hard labour, for any offence, or be
committed to an adult correctional centre in default of payment
of any fine, damages or costs.
(5) Where a child under the age of fourteen years is
convicted of an offence specified in the Fourth Schedule and the
court is of opinion that none of the other methods in which the
case may legally be dealt with is suitable, the court may
sentence the child to be detained for such period, not exceeding
twenty-five years, as the court may determine.
(6)
Where a sentence referred to in subsection
(5)
has
been passed the child shall, during that period and
notwithstanding anything in the other provisions of this Act, be
liable to be detained in such place (including an adult
correctional centre) and on such conditions as the Minister may
direct and, while so detained, shall be deemed to be in legal
custody.
79.
A court shall not order a child under the age of twelve
years to be sent to a juvenile correctional centre unless for any
reason the court is satisfied that the child cannot suitably be
dealt with otherwise.
80.-(1)
Where a child has been placed under the supervision
of a probation and after-care officer or any other person, that
officer or person-
(a) shall, while the order remains in force, visit, advise and
befriend the child and when appropriate, endeavour to
find suitable employment for the child; and
(b)
may, if it appears necessary in the child's interest so to
do, at any time while the order remains in force and the
child is under the age of eighteen years, bring the child
before a Children's Court.
(2) The Children's Court before which a child is brought
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