[Rev. 2012]
Children
CAP. 141
136. Production of child
Where a person authorised to escort a child to a rehabilitation school is unable
to find or obtain possession of the child, the court may, if satisfied by information
on oath that some person named in the information can produce the child, issue a
summons requiring the person so named to attend at the court on a specified day
and produce the child and, if the person so summoned fails without reasonable
cause to attend, in addition to any other liability to which he may be subject under
the provisions of any law including this Act, he commits an offence and is liable on
conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand shillings, or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding one year or to both.
137. Harbouring or concealing a child
Where a child has been placed under care in a rehabilitation school any person
who harbours or conceals him after the time fixed for him to enter the rehabilitation
school commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding fifty thousand shillings or to both.
Escapees
138. Escape from institutions, etc.
A child who runs away from a fit person, charitable children’s institution or
appointed local authority to whose care the child has been entrusted under this
Act, or from any person or institution with whom he has been placed by a charitable
children’s institution, or appointed local authority under any regulations made under
this Act, may be apprehended without warrant and be brought before a Children’s
Court having jurisdiction in the place where he was residing immediately before he
ran away, and that court may—
(i) order that the child be returned to where he ran away from; or
(ii) place him under the care of some other person or charitable children’s
institution; or
(iii) order him to be sent to a rehabilitation school; or
(iv) make any order which a court may make under section 125; or
(v) make an order requiring the child to undergo professional counselling.
139. Charitable children’s institutions and local authorities
Whenever a child runs away from any person or institution with whom or with
which he has been placed by a charitable children’s institution or appointed local
authority, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the secretary, clerk or other appropriate
officer of such institution or authority, within forty-eight hours of such occurrence
coming to his knowledge, to notify the Director thereof; and any secretary, clerk
or other officer who contravenes the provisions of this subsection commits an
offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five thousand shillings
or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.
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