Section 102

The person‑in‑charge of any juvenile rehabilitation centre or place of safety must review all cases of children or young persons committed to the juvenile rehabilitation centre or place of safety under section 49 or 59 and may, after such review, recommend to the Director‑General that any child or young person be released on licence.

The Director‑General, on the advice of the Review Board and despite any order made by any court, has power to order the release on licence of any person who has been detained in a juvenile rehabilitation centre or place of safety, at any time before the completion of his or her full period of detention and on such conditions as may be stated by the Director‑General in the order, including a condition that he or she is to be under the supervision of such person as may be specified in the order.

The Director‑General may at any time modify or cancel any of the conditions.

If a person released from a juvenile rehabilitation centre or place of safety on licence by order of the Director‑General fails to comply with any condition of his or her licence, the Director‑General may order the return of that person to the juvenile rehabilitation centre or place of safety from which he or she was released, to be detained there for the unexpired portion of his or her original period of detention or such shorter period as the Director‑General thinks fit.

Where a person has returned to the juvenile rehabilitation centre or place of safety under subsection (4), the Director‑General may, on the advice of the Review Board, order the release on licence of that person if he or she has served a minimum period of 6 months under detention after his or her return.

If any person while under licence or after his or her recall is sentenced to imprisonment, any period for which he or she is imprisoned under that sentence counts as part of the period for which he or she is liable to detention in a juvenile rehabilitation centre or place of safety under his or her original detention order.[76