Section 46: Leave of absence

46. Leave of absence (1) A Magistrate may, by written direction, authorise a detainee to leave an institution under escort for the purpose of declaring the birth of his child. (2) Where the Commissioner is satisfied that a spouse, parent, grandparent, child, brother or sister of a detainee has died, he may permit the detainee to leave the institution in ordinary clothes and under escort, for the purpose of viewing the body before burial or cremation. (3) The officer in charge of a Correctional Youth Centre or a Rehabilitation Youth Centre may— (a) grant leave of absence to a detainee for such period and on such conditions as he thinks fit; and (b) at any time revoke the leave of absence for breach of any of its conditions and direct the detainee to whom the leave was granted to return to the centre. (4) The Commissioner, or the officer in charge of a Correctional Youth Centre or a Rehabilitation Youth Centre, may authorise a detainee to proceed, under escort, to such place or premises as are specified in a request under the hand of the Commissioner for Drugs, being a place or premises at or upon which he intends to carry out a search in the detainee’s presence pursuant to an order made under section 45A (1) of the Dangerous Drugs Act. [S. 46 amended by s. 9 of Act 29 of 2003 w.e.f. 1 September 2003.]