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Neglected and Criminal Children Act 1867 Amendment Act 1870

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Preamble.

Short Title.

Inmates of Industrial and Reformatory Schools may be put out to service for any period and at any time.

Conditions of license &c. as to maintenance.

Neglected and Criminal Children Act 1867 Amendment Act 1870

Public Act		1870 No 29
Date of assent		12 September 1870

	Title
	Preamble.
1	Short Title.
2	Inmates of Industrial and Reformatory Schools may be put out to service for any period and at any time.
3	Conditions of license &c. as to maintenance.

An Act to amend the Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “An Act to provide for the Care and Custody of Neglected and Criminal Children.”

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is expedient that Superintendents of Provinces should he authorized to put out to service the inmates of Industrial and Reformatory Schools established within their respective Provinces at any time and for any period they may think fit and for that purpose that the twenty-third section of “The Neglected and Criminal Children Act 1867” should be amended

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Neglected and Criminal Children Act 1867 Amendment Act 1870.”

2 Inmates of Industrial and Reformatory Schools may be put out to service for any period and at any time.

Notwithstanding anything in the twenty-third section of “The Neglected and Criminal Children Act 1867” to the contrary it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province to grant to any inmate in any Industrial or Reformatory School established within the Province of which he is the Superintendent such a license as in the said section is mentioned for a longer term than three years but not exceeding five years and to place such inmate on trial before the expiration of one-half of the term of detention originally allotted to such inmate if he shall think fit so to do.

3 Conditions of license &c. as to maintenance.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent in granting any license as aforesaid to grant the same upon such conditions as to the maintenance clothing and wages and as to the proper and humane care and treatment of the inmate named therein as such Superintendent shall think fit and reasonable and every such condition shall be enforceable by and against such Superintendent as a contract duly made between him and the person named in such license as the receiver of such inmate in like manner as in ordinary cases of apprenticeship.

Neglected and Criminal Children Act 1867 Amendment Act 1870