This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Crime (Borstal Institutions Establishment) Amendment Act, 1930, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Prevention of Crime (Borstal Institutions Establishment) Act, 1924 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section sixteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the words “ordered to be”.

Section seventeen of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “for the benefit of the inmate” in subsection two, the words “or towards the maintenance of his dependants or any of them”.

Every person who escapes or attempts to escape from a Borstal institution, or who escapes or attempts to escape from lawful custody at any time while he is subject to an order of detention in or of transfer to or from a Borstal institution, or who wilfully refuses or neglects to return to a Borstal institution on the expiration or determination of any period of lawful absence therefrom, commits an offence, and is liable on summary conviction by a Stipendiary Magistrate to imprisonment for two years. Every person who commits any such offence may be arrested without warrant by a constable or by any official of the Prisons Department.

An order of detention in a Borstal institution for a further term not exceeding two years may be made under the principal Act in respect of any person who is guilty of an offence under the last preceding subsection, notwithstanding that before the making of such order the person in respect of whom it is made may have attained the age of twenty-three years.