CAP. 141 Children [Rev. 2012] 140. Escape from children’s remand home or rehabilitation school (1) Any child who escapes from a children’s remand home or while being conveyed thereto or therefrom, may be apprehended without warrant and dealt with in accordance with section 138. (2) Any child who has been committed to a rehabilitation school and who— (a) escapes from such school or from any hospital, home or institution in which he is receiving medical or other treatment, or while being conveyed to or from any such place; or (b) being absent from such school on leave of absence or on licence, runs away from the person in whose charge the child has been placed or fails to return to the school upon the expiration of his leave or upon the revocation of his licence, may be apprehended without warrant and shall be brought before a court having jurisdiction where the school is situated to be dealt with under the provisions of section 138. (3) Where a child is brought back to a rehabilitation school under subsection (2), the period of his committal shall be increased over and above any increase ordered by court, by a period equal to the period during which he was at large and should have been at the school. 141. Assisting escape, etc. Any person who knowingly— (a) assists or induces a child— (i) to run away from a fit person, a charitable children’s institution or appointed local authority to whose care the child has been committed, or from any person or institution with whom or with which he has been placed by a charitable children’s institution or an approved appointed local authority under or by virtue of this Act or any regulations made thereunder; or (ii) to do any of the things specified in section 140(2); or (b) harbours or conceals a child who has so run away or has done any such things as aforesaid; or (c) prevents such a child from returning, or induces such a child not to return, to the care of the person to whom he has been committed, or to any place in which he should be, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to a fine of fifty thousand shillings, or to both. 142. Production of escaped child If a Children’s Court is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds for supposing that a child has run away or done any of the things specified in section 140, and that some other person named in the information can produce the child, the court may issue summons requiring that other person to attend at the court and produce the child and, if the person fails to do so without reasonable excuse, he commits an offence, and in addition to [Issue 1] C15 - 66