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
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