Children and Young Persons Act · s 85

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s 85Any person who —

(a)

knowingly assists, directly or indirectly, any person legally detained under this Act in any approved school, approved home or place of detention or committed to the care or custody of any person or detained in a hospital to escape therefrom;

(b)

induces any such person so to escape; or

(c)

knowing that any such person ordered to be detained or committed has escaped, harbours or conceals or assists in harbouring or concealing that person, or causes or induces him not to return, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding

$1,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or both.

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