Clause 39

Section 164 of the Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting immediately after subsection (3) thereof the following new subsections: —“(4) The Discharge Committee shall review all cases of women and girls when they have been detained for six months, and may, after such review, recommend to the Director that any child or young person shall be discharged or released on conditional parole licence.(5) The Director on the advice of the Discharge Committee and notwithstanding any order made by any court, shall have power to order the discharge or the release on parole licence of any woman or girl who has been detained in a place of safety for six months, at any time before the completion of her full period of detention and on such conditions as may be stated by him in such order.(6) Any woman or girl released from a place of safety on conditional parole licence by order of the Director, who breaks the conditions of her parole licence, shall be brought before the Director who shall have power to order the return of such woman or girl to the place of safety from which she was released, to be detained there for the unexpired portion of her original period of detention, except where the woman or girl concerned, by reason of any act or omission committed whilst on licence, renders herself liable to prosecution for any offence, in which case she shall be brought before the appropriate court.”.