clothing, medical aid, or lodging, for such child, whereby the health of such child has been, or is likely to be, seriously injured: And may pay the costs of such proceedings out of the funds voted to such board, authority or person by the Legislature of such Presidency as aforesaid.

may send

child to a

school.

12. Where any such Board, authority, or person, as afore- Magistrate said has instituted such proceedings as in the last preceding neglected section mentioned, and it is proved to the satisfaction of the Magistrate that the parent, or person having charge, of such child as therein mentioned has been guilty of neglect as therein mentioned, whether wilful, or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to order such child as aforesaid to be taken to a Training School.

13. Where any person apparently under the age of sixteen years is found wandering about without having any fixed abode or any visible means of support, or in the company of rogues, vagabonds, disorderly persons, or reputed criminals, he may be brought before a Magistrate, and the Magistrate may order him to be taken to a Training School.

Young vaga

bonds may be

sent to a

school.

Person under

16 convicted

and liable to

14. Whenever any person, who in the judgment of the Court before which he is charged is apparently under the age of sixteen years, is convicted of an offence punishable imprisonment may be sent with imprisonment, or with imprisonment with hard labour, to a school, either summarily, or upon indictment, such Court as aforesaid instead of imposing a sentence of imprisonment, or imprisonment with hard labour, may order him to be taken to a Training School.

Court not to specify period person is to Training.

which a

15. Where any Court orders any person to be sent or taken to a Training School, the Court shall not specify the period during which such person as aforesaid is to remain in such Training School, except so far as relates to the maximum age up to which he may remain an inmate of School. Training School as prescribed by this Act.

a

remain at a

Order.

16. Where any Court orders any person to be sent, or Form of taken, to a Training School, whether under the provisions of this, or any other, Act now, or hereafter to be, in force in the Colony, or any Presidency thereof, empowering a Court to send any person to a Training School, the order may be

Inmate of school to

in till age of eighteen.

or in

any

in the form set forth in the Schedule to this Act, (b) or as
near thereto as the circumstances of the case allow,
other form which may be allowed or prescribed by such
other Act as aforesaid.

17. Where any person is ordered to be sent, or taken to a remain there- Training School, whether under the provisions of this Act, or under the provisions of any Act now, or hereafter to be, in force in the Colony, or any Presidency thereof, he may be taken to a Training School, and shall be subject to the provisions of this Act, and shall remain at such Training School until he attains the age of eighteen (c) years, unless he be sooner allowed to depart therefrom by order of the Governor.

Copy of order

to be delivered

to be evi

dence.

A copy of the order shall be delivered to the Superinto the Super-tendent of the Training School to which such person is sent, intendent and and shall be full and sufficient authority to any person to the convey mentioned in the order to the Superinperson tendent of a Training School and to the Superintendent of any Training School to keep the person so named in the order. A copy of any such order purporting to be signed by a Judge, or Magistrate, or Clerk to a Magistrate, shall be admitted as primâ facie evidence in any Court without proof of the signature, and without proof that such order has been rightly made.

Time during which a person may be kept at a school.

Proviso.

Governor may

remove

inmate from

one school to ano! her.

Proviso.

Governor may
transfer
Prisoner or
Pauper under

18. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of a Training School to keep any person ordered to be sent, or taken, to a Training School until such person shall be known to have attained the age of eighteen (c) years, or for such time as may be prescribed by the Regulations made by the Governorin-Council as herein before mentioned. Provided that he shall not remain in such School after he is known to have attained the age of eighteen (c) years.

19. The Governor may at any time order that any inmate of a Training School be removed to another Training School -Provided that he shall not remain in any such school after he is known to have attained the age of eighteen (c) years. 20. The Governor may order that any person, apparently under the age of sixteen years, who is undergoing a (b) See the Appendix.

(c) Now twenty-one years (by the amending Act passed in 1892).

school.

sentence of imprisonment, or imprisonment with hard labour, 16 years of in any prison in the Colony, or who is an inmate of age to a any poor-house, to be removed, and taken to a Training School.

21. Any person removed from a prison, or poor-house, to a Training School, as in the last preceding section mentioned, shall be subject to all the provisions of this Act, as though he had been originally sent to a Training School by a Court.

22. Any order under the hand of the Governor, as in the 19th and 20th sections of this Act mentioned, shall be of the same authority to the Superintendent of the Training School, to whom it is directed, for the keeping thereat of the person named therein, as if it had been issued by a Court, as mentioned in section 15 of this Act.

23. It shall be lawful for the Governor at any time to permit any inmate of a Training School to leave such School either unconditionally, or conditionally.

Prisoner or moved to school to be subject to this

Pauper re

Act.

Governor's authority in certain cases for keeping person at

order to be

a school.

Governor may permit inmate

to leave.

maintenance.

24. A Magistrate may on the application of a Super- Orders for intendent, or of any person authorized in writing by a Superintendent, order that any person, liable by law to support any inmate, shall contribute such sums, and at such times, as the Magistrate may allow, for the support of such inmate.

25. Every order, made on any person to contribute to the Howenforced. maintenance of an inmate of a Training School, shall specify the time during which payment of such contribution is to be made, and may direct the payment to be made till further order, and every such order may be enforced as if it was an order made by a District Magistrate to pay a fine on a summary conviction in the manner and form prescribed by the Magistrates' Summary Jurisdiction Acts. (d) The Superintendent of any Training School, or any person authorized by him in writing, may at any time enforce compliance with such order.

26. The payment made in respect of every such con- Contributions tribution shall be paid into the Treasury of the Presidency, in which is situate the Training School, where the inmate paid to

(d) This is equivalent to the Magistrates' Code of Procedure Act, 1891. See sect. 258 of that Act.

to maintenance to be

Treasury.

Protection to employes in a school.

Offences against this Act.

Punishment.

As to the ascertaining of a person's age.

is kept, in respect of whose maintenance the contribution is made.

27. Every person employed in a Training School shall when acting within the scope of his employment have and enjoy the same privileges and protections as a Police or Prison Officer has and enjoys under any law for the time being in force relating to the Leeward Islands Police Force, or to the custody of Prisoners.

28. Every person who

(i.) Knowingly assists directly, or indirectly, any inmate of a Training School to quit such School, except as provided by this Act; or

(ii.) Directly, or indirectly, induces any inmate of a Training School to quit such School, except as provided by this Act; or

(iii.) Knowingly harbours, conceals, or prevents from returning to such School, as aforesaid, any inmate thereof, who has quitted the same, except as provided by this Act

may be prosecuted on complaint before a District Magistrate under the Magistrates' Summary Jurisdiction Acts, (e) and shall on conviction be liable to be imprisoned with, or without, hard labour for a period not exceeding four months, or to pay a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

29. When the exact age of any person subject, or likely, or alleged to be subject, to the provisions of this Act is unascertainable, it shall be sufficient for all the purposes of this Act to ascertain the approximate age of such person. And no person, acting bonâ fide under this Act, shall be liable in an action for any act done thereunder, where the Limitation of Plaintiff claims damages, upon the ground that he was either over, or under, a certain age when the act complained of was done.

actions.

(e) See note to sect. 25.

"But is this law?"

66

Ay, marry is't; crowner's-quest law.”

-"Hamlet.' ACT V. SCENE I.

LEEWARD ISLANDS, ACT No. 12, 1889.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Coroners.

5. All persons aware.

Who to Report.

6. Manager of Estate, Keeper of Public Institution, owner or occupier, of

Where Inquest or Inquiry to be held in case of Death.

11. Coroner to cause investigation and if necessary inquest to be held. 12. When inquest to be held on application for order for burial.

13. By order of Coroner.

Examination of the Body.

14. By order of Police in case of Emergency.

15. Duty of Medical Practitioner on examination of body.

16. Medical Report to be evidence.

17. Examination not to be made by persons charged with neglect.

Burials.

18. Order for burial when no effectual inquisition can be taken. Order for

burial where inquest unnecessary.

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