Youthful Offenders Act 1855

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1855 c. 87
Anno Regni VICTORI, Britanniarum Regin,Decimo Octavo & Decimo Nono. An Act to amend the Act for the better Care and Reformation of Youthful Offenders, and the Act to render Reformatory and Industrial Schools inScotland more available for the Benefit of Vagrant Children.

(18 & 19 Vict.) C A P. LXXXVII.

[14th August 1855]

'WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Act of the last Session of Parliament, Chapter Eighty-six, ‘for the better Careand Reformation of Youthful Offenders inGreat Britain ,’ so far as respects the Provision thereby made for charging the Parent or Step-Parent of an Offender in certain Cases with Payments towards his Maintenance or Support:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

S-I ss. 5. & 6. repealed.

I ss. 5. & 6. repealed.

I. Sections Five and Six of the said Act shall be repealed.

S-II Provision for enforcing Contribution by Parents to the Maintenance of Juvenile Offenders in Reformatory Schools.

II Provision for enforcing Contribution by Parents to the Maintenance of Juvenile Offenders in Reformatory Schools.

II. In every Case in which any Juvenile Offender shall be detained in a Reformatory School under the said Act, the Parent or Step-Parent, if of sufficient Ability, shall be liable to contribute to his Support and Maintenance a Sum not exceeding Five Shillings a Week; and it shall be lawful inEngland and Wales for any Two Justices of the Peace, upon the Complaint of any Person authorized by One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to take Proceedings in that Behalf, to summon the Parent or Step-Parent, as the Case may be, and examine into his or her Ability, and (if on Consideration of all the Circumstances of the Case they think fit) to make an Order upon him or her for such weekly Payment, not exceeding Five Shillings per Week, as they shall think reasonable, during the whole or any Part of the Detention of such Juvenile Offender in such Reformatory School, such Payment to be made at such Times as by such Order may be directed to the Person so authorized to take Proceedings as aforesaid, or to such Person as the Secretary of State may from Time to Time appoint to receive the same, and by him to be accounted for and paid as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may direct.

S-III Recovery of Sums ordered to be...

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