Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Bill

by inserting, immediately after paragraph 4, the following paragraph:“5.—

Notwithstanding paragraph 1, the Minister may, from time to time, on the recommendation of the Visiting Justices, direct that a detainee shall be released from day to day to engage in such employment (including self-employment) as the Minister may specify.(2) Any direction made under sub-paragraph (1) shall have effect for a period to be fixed by the Minister and may be subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be imposed by the Minister.(3) The Minister may at any time revoke any direction made under sub-paragraph (1).(4) The Minister may, subject to such conditions and restrictions as he thinks fit, grant leave to a detainee in respect of whom a direction has been made under sub-paragraph (1) to spend his leave at such place as the Minister may specify.(5) The Minister may at any time revoke any leave granted to a detainee under sub-paragraph (4).(6) Where any direction made under sub-paragraph (1) is in force in respect of a detainee or any leave is granted under sub-paragraph (4) to a detainee, the superintendent of the reformative training centre shall release the detainee at such times and for such periods as are necessary to give effect to the direction or grant of leave.(7) If any detainee in respect of whom a direction has been made under sub-paragraph (1) or leave has been granted under sub-paragraph (4) remains at large without lawful excuse or fails to return to his place of detention after such direction or leave has been revoked, he shall be deemed to be unlawfully at large and to have escaped from lawful custody.(8) Every person released under this paragraph shall continue to be in the legal custody of the superintendent of the reformative training centre from which he is released during every period for which he is so released.(9) For the purposes of this paragraph, “detainee” means any person who is detained in a reformative training centre in pursuance of a sentence passed under section 13.”;

by renumbering the existing paragraphs 5 and 6 as paragraphs 6 and 7, respectively; and

by inserting at the end the following paragraph:“8. In this Schedule, “Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for home affairs.”.