Women and Girls Protection Act · 1984 Revised Edition
Section 24
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
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The Minister may appoint for a place of safety a
place of safety
"place of safety" means any place of safety estab-lished under the provisions of section 13 of this Act;
Discharge Committee which shall advise and make recom-mendations to the Commissioner on the discharge and af~er
Commissioner
"Commissioner" means the Director of Welfare, Youth and Sports and will include such other per-Short title Interpre-tation 3 Selling or hiring for purpose of prostitution False pre-tences etc.
care of women and girls in such place of safety.
A Discharge Committee may be appointed in respect of one or more places of safety as the Minister thinks fit.
A Discharge Committee shall consist of 5 per-sons a majority of whom shall be women.
( 4) The Discharge Committee shall review all cases of women or girls when they have been detained for 6
months, and may, after such review, recommend to the
Commissioner that any child or young person shall be dis-charged or released on conditional parole licence.
( 5) The Commissioner on the advice of the Dis-charge Committee and notwithstanding any order made by any court, shall have power to order the discharge or the release on parole licence of any woman or girl who has been detained in a place of safety for 6 n1onths, at any time before the completion of her full period of detention and on such conditions as may be stated by him in such order.
( 6) Any woman or girl released from a place of safe-ty on conditional parole licence by order of the Commis-sioner, who breaks the conditions of her parole licence,
place
"place" means any building, house, office, flat, room or cubicle or any part thereof, and any open or enclosed space and includes a ship, boat or any vessel, whether afloat or not, and any vehicles;
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Discharge
Committee
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Women and Girls Protection shall be brought before the Commissioner 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 'the unexpired portion of her original period of deten-tion, except where the woman or girl concerned, by reason of any act of omission committed whilst on licence, renders herself liable to prosecution for any offence, in which case she shall be brought before the appropriate court.
Terms defined in s 2
Commissioner
Defined · s 2"Commissioner" means the Director of Welfare, Youth and Sports and will include such other per-Short title Interpre-tation 3 Selling or hiring for purpose of prostitution False pre-tences etc.
place
Defined · s 2"place" means any building, house, office, flat, room or cubicle or any part thereof, and any open or enclosed space and includes a ship, boat or any vessel, whether afloat or not, and any vehicles;
place of safety
Defined · s 2"place of safety" means any place of safety estab-lished under the provisions of section 13 of this Act;