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Criminal Justice Act 1961

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14Release and supervision

(1)At any time during the period of a person's detention in an approved school the managers of the school may, and if the Secretary of State so directs shall, release him:

Provided that a person shall not be released within the first six months of the period without the consent of the Secretary of State.

(2)A person who, after the commencement of this section, is released from an approved school (whether under subsection (1) of this section or at the expiration of the period of his detention, and whether he has been released on any previous occasion or not) shall, after his release, be subject to supervision under Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act.

(3)Part II of the Second Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of enabling the managers of an approved school to exercise certain supervisory powers in relation to a person who has been under their supervision under Part I of that Schedule, if requested by him to do so.

(4)Section seventy-four of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, and paragraph 6 of the Fourth Schedule to that Act, shall cease to have effect.

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