§ 18. Mr. MALLALIEUasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies with regard to the Ordinance which has been passed in Bermuda under which children convicted of offences may at the order of the court be apprenticed for several years to private employers, what is the number of years it is possible to apprentice such children; what are the wages paid during the apprenticeship; and whether the wages are paid direct to the apprentice or to third parties?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERThe Ordinance provides that the period of the apprenticeship shall be such as the juvenile court shall direct, but that it shall in any event terminate when the juvenile apprenticed attains the age of 21 years. There is no provision in the Ordinance relating to the payment of wages to the apprentices, and I have not been informed as to the practice adopted.