PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES (PLACES OF REFUGE) REGULATIONS

PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES (PLACES OF REFUGE) REGULATIONS

PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES (PLACES
OF REFUGE) REGULATIONS.
(Cap. 213, section 39).
LAW
[5th January, 1951.1
1. Theseregulations may be cited as the Protection of

Women and Juveniles (Places of Refuge) Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

..ward' means any infant the legal guardianship of whom is vested in the
Director of Social Welfare.

3. No private institution shall be declared a place of refuge without
the consent of the management thereof.

4. All places of refuge and any register kept therein pursuant to
these regulations shall be open to inspection at any reasonable hour by
the Director of Social Welfare or by any person so authorized by him in
writing.

5. No punishment, restraint or correction shall be administered to
any ward or inmate of a place of refuge detained therein in pursuance of
the Ordinance unless such punishment, restraint or correction shall have
been authorized by rules approved by the Director of Social Welfare.

6. All punishments, restraints or corrections administered to a ward
or to any inmate of a place of refuge detained therein pursuant to the
provisions of the Ordinance shall be recorded in an appropriate register
to be kept in such place of refuge.

7. It shall be lawful for the Director of Social Welfare to approve any
rules made by the management of any place of refuge not wholly
maintained by public funds for the welfare education and control of any
ward or inmate of any place of refuge detained there pursuant to the
provisions of the Ordinance. The power hereinbefore contained shall not
be deemed to authorize the making or approval of any rules for the
punishment, restraint or correction of any person other than such
punishment, restraint or correction as a parent could lawfully administer
to a child:





Provided that for the purpose of considering whether any
punishment, restraint or correction of any female is lawful she shall be
deemed to be a child.

8. Any contravention of regulation 4, 5 or 6 shall constitute an
offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine of one thousand
dollars.

9. The form set out in the Schedule is prescribed for the
purposes of subsection (3) of section 34A of the Ordinance.

SCHEDULE. [reg. 9.1

PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES
ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 213).

ORDER FOR DETENTION IN PLACE OF
REFUGE.

HONG KONG IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT .....................

. ............... JUVENILE COURT.

To each and all of the police officers of the said Colony and to the
Superintendent of ................................................................................. a place of
refuge provided under the Protection of Women and Juveniles Ordinance
..........................................................................................

.....................................
.....................................

being a child [or young person] in respect of whom an application has been
made to the Juvenile Court sitting at ......................................................
on the ground that he/she is in need of care or protection:

.....................................
.....................................

The hearing of the case being adjourned.

[You, the said police officers, are hereby commanded to convey the said child
[or young person] to the said place of refuge and there to deliver him/her to the
said superintendent together with this order: and]

You, the said superintendent, are hereby commanded to detain him/her

until the .................day of 19

And you, the said police officers, are further commanded to convey the said

child [or young person] on the said day of

19 .............in the noon before the Juvenile Court sitting at
............... to be further dealt with according to law.

Dated this .day of .........19

.............

(L.S.) Magistrate.

Note: Delete if child or young person already detained in the place of refuge.

The period of detention must not exceed twenty-eight days.






1 of 1951, Second Schedule. 1 of 1958. L.N.112/70. Citation. Interpretation. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Management's consent required before private places of refuge are so declared. Places of refuge and registers to be open to inspection. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Punishment of inmates of places of refuge detained under Ordinance to be in accordance with rules approved by the Director of Social Welfare. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Punishment of Director of Social Welfare to approve rules. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Penalty. Prescribed form for purposes of section 34A of the Ordinance. L.N. 112/70. Schedule.

1 of 1951, Second Schedule. 1 of 1958. L.N.112/70. Citation. Interpretation. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Management's consent required before private places of refuge are so declared. Places of refuge and registers to be open to inspection. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Punishment of inmates of places of refuge detained under Ordinance to be in accordance with rules approved by the Director of Social Welfare. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Punishment of Director of Social Welfare to approve rules. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Penalty. Prescribed form for purposes of section 34A of the Ordinance. L.N. 112/70. Schedule.

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