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

Children and Young Persons Act

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Any person who —(a)knowingly assists, directly or indirectly, any person legally detained in any approved school or approved home or committed to the care or custody of any person, society or institution or detained in any hospital or place specified by the Director of Medical Services under section 8(2) of the Infectious Diseases Act [Cap. 137] to escape therefrom;(b)induces any such person so to escape; or(c)knowing that any such person ordered to be detained or committed as aforesaid has escaped from any such approved school or approved home, or from the care or custody of such person, society or institution or from any such hospital or place, harbours or conceals, or assists in harbouring or concealing that person, or causes or induces him not to return to such school or home, person or society or institution, or hospital or place,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

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