Section 24
of Women and Girls Protection Act
Section 24
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(1)
The Minister may appoint for a place of safety a
Discharge Committee which shall advise and make recom-mendations to the Commissioner on the discharge and af~er
care of women and girls in such place of safety.
(2)
A Discharge Committee may be appointed in respect of one or more places of safety as the Minister thinks fit.
(3)
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,
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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.
Rules 25.
(1)
The Minister may make Rules for and in respect of all or any of the following purposes or matters -
(a)
the care, detention, temporary absence, maintenance and education of women and girls de-tained under this Act;
(b)
the manner and conditions in and under which the powers conferred by this Act shall be exercised by the persons on whom such powers are conferred;
(c)
the composition, duties, functions and proc-edure of the Discharge Committee; and
(d)
generally in relation to any matters, whether similar or not to those above mentioned, as to which it is expedient to make Rules for carrying into effect the objects of this Act.
(2)
All such Rules when made shall be published in the Gazette and from the date of such publication shall have the same force and effect as if enacted in this Act.
(3)
Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any such Rules shall be liable to a fine of $2,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
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