Singapore legislation

Section 104

of Children and Young Persons Act 1993

Section 104

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

Amended by3/2011

Any person who —

(a)

knowingly assists, directly or indirectly, any person legally detained in any juvenile rehabilitation centre, place of safety 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 juvenile rehabilitation centre, place of safety 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 or her 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 $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.[78