Section 90

Where in any case, from the gravity of the offence for which any child or young person may be in custody or for any other reason, the manager or person having control of the place where the child or young person is detained considers it to be desirable to take special measures for the security of the child or young person while under treatment in a hospital, mental hospital or place specified by the Director of Medical Services under section 8(2) of the Infectious Diseases Act, it shall be lawful for him to give the child or young person into the charge of fit and proper persons not being less than two in number, one of whom at the least shall always be with the child or young person day and night, and those persons shall be vested with full power and authority to do all things necessary to prevent the child or young person from escaping, and shall be answerable for his safe custody until such time as he is handed over to a manager or person having control of the place where the child or young person was detained on his discharge from the hospital, mental hospital or place specified by the Director of Medical Services under section 8(2) of the Infectious Diseases Act [Cap. 137] or until such time as his period of detention expires, whichever may first occur.