Clause 25

by deleting the words “conditional parole” in the fifth line of subsection (4) thereof; and

by deleting subsections (5) and (6) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —“(5) The Director, on the advice of the Discharge Committee, shall have power to order the discharge or the release on licence of any woman or girl who has been detained in a place of safety for six months 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 licence by order of the Director, who breaks the conditions of her 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 such further period as the Director deems necessary, except where the girl or woman concerned, by reason of any act or omission committed while on licence, renders herself liable to prosecution for any offence, in which case she shall be brought before the appropriate court.”.