### Juvenile Offenders Ordinance 《少年犯條例》

14A. Supervision order
(1) The Director of Social Welfare may make a supervision order against a child or young person who is released from a place of detention after having been detained for less than 6 months under a detention order.
(2) A supervision order shall contain conditions that—
(a) for a period from the date of his release until the expiration of 6 months from the date of the detention order, the child or young person shall be subject to supervision by such organization or person as may be specified therein; and
(b) the child or young person shall, while under such supervision, comply with such requirements, including requirements as to residence, as may be specified therein.
(3) The Director of Social Welfare may at any time vary or cancel a supervision order.
(Added 11 of 1977 s. 3)

14B. Recall order
(1) The Director of Social Welfare may, if he is satisfied that a child or young person against whom a supervision order is in force has failed to comply with any condition or requirement of or made under the order, make a recall order against such child or young person requiring him to return to a place of detention, and thereupon such child or young person may be arrested and taken to a place of detention.
(2) A child or young person who has returned or been taken to a place of detention under subsection (1) may be detained until the expiration of 6 months from the date of the detention order.
(3) The Director of Social Welfare may at any time release any such child or young person, and a further supervision order shall not be made in respect of such child or young person.
(Added 11 of 1977 s. 3)

14C. Meaning of young person (少年人) in sections 14A and 14B
For the purposes of sections 14A and 14B, young person (少年人) includes a person who attains the age of 16 years during the period of 6 months after the date of the detention order.
(Added 11 of 1977 s. 3)

### Juvenile Offenders Ordinance 《少年犯條例》

16. Provision of places of detention
(1) The Chief Executive may by order— (Amended 15 of 1999 s. 3)
(a) appoint any place to be a place of detention for the purposes of this Ordinance;
(b) declare that any place of detention shall be used only for such of the purposes for which places of detention are provided as may be specified in the order. (Replaced 15 of 1973 s. 14)
(2)-(3) (Repealed 15 of 1973 s. 14)(4) In selecting the place of detention to which a child or young person is to be committed the court or police officer shall have regard to whether the place is suitable for the reception of convicted or of unconvicted persons, or of persons charged with serious offences or minor offences, as the case may be, and also, where practicable, to the religious persuasion of the child or young person.
(5) A child or young person detained in a place of detention may be, by order of the Chief Executive, either discharged therefrom or transferred to some other place of detention. (Amended 15 of 1999 s. 3)
[cf. 1908 c. 67 s. 108 U.K.]

17. Provisions as to the custody of children and young persons in places of detention
(1) The order or judgment in pursuance of which a child or young person is committed to custody in a place of detention shall be delivered with the child or young person to the person in charge of the place of detention and shall be sufficient authority for his detention in that place in accordance with the tenor thereof.
(2) A child or young person whilst so detained and whilst being conveyed to and from the place of detention shall be deemed to be in legal custody and if he escapes may be apprehended without warrant and brought back to the place of detention in which he was detained.
(3) The Chief Executive shall cause places of detention to be inspected, and may make rules as to the places to be used as places of detention, and as to their inspection, and as to the classification, treatment, employment, and control of children and young persons detained in custody in a place of detention, and for the children and young persons whilst so detained being visited from time to time by persons appointed in accordance with those rules. (Amended 15 of 1999 s. 3)
(Amended 15 of 1973 s. 15)[cf. 1908 c. 67 s. 109 U.K.]

### Juvenile Offenders Ordinance 《少年犯條例》

18. Expenses of maintenance of child or young person
The expenses incurred by the Government in respect of any place of detention, including the expenses of the maintenance of any child or young person detained therein, whether detained on apprehension or committed to custody on remand or commitment for trial or in lieu of imprisonment or in default of payment of a fine, damages, or costs, shall be defrayed out of the general revenue.
(Amended 15 of 1973 s. 16)[cf. 1908 c. 67 s. 110 U.K.]

19. Order not to be invalidated by subsequent proof of age
Where a person, whether charged with an offence or not, is brought before any court and it appears to the court, after considering any available evidence as to his age, that he is a child or young person, an order or judgment of the court shall not be invalidated by any subsequent proof that the age of that person has not been correctly stated to or presumed or declared by the court, and the age presumed or declared by the court to be the age of the person so brought before it shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be the true age of that person, and where it appears to the court, after considering any available evidence as to his age, that the person so brought before it is of the age of 16 years or upwards, that person shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed not to be a child or young person.
(Amended 33 of 1979 s. 2)[cf. 1908 c. 67 s. 123 U.K.]

20. Power to clear court whilst a child or young person is giving evidence in certain cases
In addition and without prejudice to any powers which a court may possess to hear proceedings in camera the court may, where a person who in the opinion of the court is a child or young person is called as a witness in any proceedings in relation to an offence against, or any conduct contrary to, decency or morality, direct that all or any persons, not being members or officers of the court or parties to the case, their counsel or solicitors, or persons otherwise directly concerned in the case, be excluded from the court during the taking of the evidence of the child or young person:
Provided that nothing in this section shall authorize the exclusion of bona fide representatives of a newspaper or news agency.[cf. 1908 c. 67 s. 114 U.K.]

### Juvenile Offenders Ordinance 《少年犯條例》

21. Power to make rules
The Chief Executive in Council may make rules, as from time to time appear to him to be necessary, providing for the proper carrying into effect of the purposes of this Ordinance.
(Replaced 8 of 1960 s. 4. Amended 15 of 1999 s. 3)

22. Saving
Save in so far as other provision is expressly made in this Ordinance nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect any other law relating to children or young persons.

23. Transitional provisions
As from the commencement* of the Juvenile Offenders (Amendment) Ordinance 2003 (6 of 2003), no proceedings shall lie against a child in respect of an offence committed by him before that commencement if at the time the offence was committed the child was of an age that, had the offence been committed after that commencement, he would not be liable to proceedings for that offence by virtue of section 3.
(Added 6 of 2003 s. 3)Editorial Note:
* Commencement date : 1 July 2003.