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NO. 1 OF 1993


detention in an approved school or approved home under his original detention order.

Escape from approved schools or approved homes

74.—(1) Every person detained under this Act in an approved school or approved home shall serve the full period of detention as ordered by the court until he is lawfully discharged therefrom.

(2) Any person who escapes from an approved school or approved home before the expiry of his period of detention shall be required to serve the period he was at large in the approved school or approved home as computed by the manager of the approved school or approved home.

(3) Notwithstanding anything stated in this section, no person shall be detained in any approved school or approved home after he attains the age of 19 years and 6 months.

Penalties for assisting or inducing persons to escape and for harbouring or concealing escaped persons

75. Any person who—

(a) knowingly assists, directly or indirectly, any person legally detained in any approved school, approved home or place of detention or committed to the care or custody of a person or detained in any approved hospital to escape therefrom;
(b) induces any such person so to escape; or
(c) knowing that any such person ordered to be detained or committed has escaped from any such approved school, approved home or place of detention or from the care or custody of a person or from an approved hospital, harbours or conceals or assists in harbouring or concealing that person, or causes or induces him not to return to such school, home, person, place of detention or approved hospital,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.