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Reformatory and Industrial Schools
1
Short title
PART I Preliminary
2
Interpretation
PART II Establishment and organisation of Schools
3
Minister may authorise the use of any land or building as a School
4
Crown lands may be used for School for Girls
5
“Dodds†plantation vested in Crown
6
Government Industrial School to be kept up by Minister
7
Minister to erect suitable buildings, to make alterations and repairs and to provide furniture and implements, etc., for agricultural work
8
Principal to employ watchman and other servants
9
Superintendent of Prisons official visitor
10
Officer conveying any child has powers, etc., of a constable
PART III Classes of Children to be sent to the Schools
11
Court or magistrate may sentence child under 16 to be sent to a School
12
Child sentenced under section 11 to be delivered to a School
13
Governor-General may commute any sentence by ordering child to be sent to a School
14
Child under 16 in need of care and protection may be brought before magistrate who may send to a School
15
Child charged with certain offences may be sent to a School
16
Magistrates on representations of Child Care Board may order child to be sent to a School
17
Order of magistrate specifying period of detention under sections 14 , 15 and 16
18
Minister to make arrangements for delivering child and documents
19
Possession of warrant or order sufficient
PART IV Licence to live out of School and Apprenticeship
20
Principal may license child to live with trustworthy person
21
Licence not to be for more than 3Â months but may be renewed
22
Revocation of licences
23
Period of licence counted as part of detention at the School
24
Escapes from person with whom placed or refusal to return to School
25
Apprenticeships to trades
26
Apprenticeships to sea service or service in Commonwealth
27
Provisions which every indenture shall contain
28
Period passed under indenture deemed part of term of detention at School
29
Punishment of children under indenture found in Barbados before the end of term
30
Expenses of outfits for apprentices
PART V Offences in relation to Schools
31
Boys neglecting or refusing to conform to the rules of School
32
Girls neglecting or refusing to conform to the rules of School
33
Child guilty of serious breach of rules may have period of detention increased or, if 16 or over, may be imprisoned
34
Power to apprehend and punish boys escaping from School
35
Power to apprehend and punish girls escaping from School
36
Punishment for offences relating to escapes
37
Prosecutions require fiat of D.P.P.
PART VI Discharge from the Schools and After-Care
38
Minister may order discharges unconditionally or on terms
39
Supervision after expiration of period of detention by direction of Minister
40
Supervision of child discharged without being put under supervision
PART VII Financial Provisions
41
Payment for child sent to School under section 16
42
Parents liable for maintenance
43
Enforcement of parental contributions
44
Order may specify time of payment
45
Magistrate may vary order
46
Minister may remit payment or part
47
Moneys under orders paid into Consolidated Fund
48
Accounts to be audited
PART VIII Advisory Board
49
Advisory Board
50
Functions of the Board
PART IX Rules and Regulations
51
Rules and regulations
52
A system of marks and of rewards to be established
53
Minister may revoke or alter rules
54
Rules to be published in Official Gazette and to become law
55
Copy of rules signed to be evidence in all legal proceedings
PART X Miscellaneous
56
School attendance not compulsory in certain cases
57
Production of order, etc., to be sufficient evidence in respect of child sent to a School
58
Proceedings under Act to be in writing and depositions signed