Children and Young Persons Act

(CHAPTER 38)

(Original Enactment: Ordinance 18 of 1949)

REVISED EDITION 1985

(30th March 1987)

An Act to consolidate the law relating to children and young persons.

[1st August 1950]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Children and Young Persons Act.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“approved home” means any home or institution or part thereof, for the reception, education and vocational training of children or young persons appointed or established under the provisions and for the purposes of this Act;

“approved school” means any school or institution, or part thereof, for the reception, education and vocational training of children or young persons appointed or established under the provisions and for the purposes of this Act;

“Director” means the Director of Social Welfare and includes the Assistant Director of Social Welfare and such other persons as the President may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be vested with all or any of the powers conferred and the duties imposed upon the Director by this Act or by any rules made thereunder;

“juvenile” means a male or female person who, in the opinion of any court, is 7 years of age or upwards and under the age of 16 years;

“manager” includes a director, manager and superintendent or other person having the management or control of any approved school or approved home or remand home;

“place of detention” means a place provided or appointed by the Minister as a place of detention under section 67;

“remand home” means any home or institution, or part thereof appointed by the Minister to be a remand home for the detention of juveniles sent there under the provisions of this Act;

“visitor” means a person appointed to be a member of a board of visitors under section 84;

“vocational training” means actual employment in agriculture or training in some branch of useful industry;

“youthful offender” means a male or female person who, in the absence of legal proof to the contrary, is, in the opinion of any court, 7 years of age or upwards and under the age of 16 years.

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