12. Section 24 of the principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:
24.
—(1) Where pursuant to this Act a child or young person is committed to the care of any person —
(a)
that person shall, while the order of committal is in force, have the like control over the child or young person as if he were the parent of the child or young person and shall be responsible for the maintenance of the child or young person; and
(b)
the child or young person shall continue in the care of that person notwithstanding that he is claimed by his parent or guardian or any other person.
(2) Any person who —
(a)
without lawful authority removes a child or young person from the custody of the person to whose care the child or young person has been committed pursuant to this Act;
(b)
knowingly assists or induces, directly or indirectly, a child or young person to escape from the person to whose care he has been committed pursuant to this Act; or
(c)
knowingly —
(i)
harbours or conceals a child or young person who has escaped from the person to whose care he has been committed pursuant to this Act;
(ii)
prevents such child or young person from returning to the person to whose care he has been committed pursuant to this Act; or
(iii)
assists any other person in doing any of the acts mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii),
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
(3) For the purposes of this section, a child or young person who, pursuant to this Act, is committed or sent to an approved school, an approved home, a remand home, a place of detention or a place of safety shall be deemed to have been committed to the care of the manager of the approved school, approved home, remand home, place of detention or place of safety, as the case may be.”.