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40 Director to control and manage approved schools and approved homes

63. Approved schools and approved homes established under section 62 shall be under the control and management of the Director.

Director may make regulations for approved schools and approved homes

64. The Director may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for the management of approved schools or approved homes established under the provisions of this Act and for the maintenance of order and discipline of the staff and the persons detained therein.

Board of visitors

65.—(1) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint such persons as he may think fit to be members of a board of visitors in respect of any approved school, approved home, remand home, place of detention or place of safety for such period as may be specified in the notification.

(2) Every person appointed under subsection (1) may enter at all reasonable times any approved school, approved home, remand home, place of detention or place of safety and make such inquiries or examination therein as appear to him necessary and shall also make such reports as may be required by the Minister.

(3) Any manager who refuses admittance to any such visitor or to the Director or any officer deputed by the Director for the purpose or offers any hindrance or obstruction to those persons after their identity is reasonably established shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

Approved schools and approved homes lawful places of detention

66. Every approved school and approved home shall be a lawful place of detention for such juvenile offenders as are ordered to be detained therein.