Hong Kong Ordinances

JUVENILE OFFENDERS ORDINANCE - SECT 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)