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42 was detained a certificate stating that the necessity has ceased, and thereupon the manager shall forthwith cause the child or young person to be brought back to the approved school or approved home if he is still liable to be detained therein.

Duty to inform manager

70. Where a child or young person detained in an approved school or approved home is admitted to an approved hospital, it shall be the duty of a registered medical practitioner or any officer of the approved hospital to inform the manager of the approved school or approved home, if he has reason to believe that the child or young person may escape.

Special custody in hospital

71. Where in any case, from the gravity of the offence for which any child or young person may be in custody or for any other reason, the manager of the place where the child or young person is detained considers it to be desirable to take special measures for the security of the child or young person while under treatment in an approved hospital, it shall be lawful for the manager to give the child or young person into the charge of not less than two fit and proper persons, one of whom at the least shall always be with the child or young person day and night, and those persons shall be vested with full power and authority to do all things necessary to prevent the child or young person from escaping, and shall be answerable for his safe custody until such time as he is handed over to the manager on his discharge from the approved hospital or until such time as his period of detention expires, whichever is earlier.

Saving of powers of High Court

72. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to lessen or affect the powers of the Judges of the High Court to direct persons confined in Singapore to be brought before the Court by writ of habeas corpus.