Northwest Territories Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. N-27)

Marginal note:Recapture of escaped mentally disordered persons

• 55. (1) Where a mentally disordered person has escaped from a mental institution, asylum or other place of confinement, within or outside the Territories, any person employed therein or connected therewith or other person requested by the person in immediate charge or control thereof may, within forty-eight hours after the escape, without a warrant, retake the escaped person and return him to the place from which he escaped, or may, if a warrant is issued to him for that purpose, do so at any time after the escape up to the time specified in the warrant.

• Marginal note:Warrants

  (2) A warrant may be issued for the purposes of subsection (1) by the person in immediate charge or control of the mental institution, asylum or other place of confinement from which the escape was made and shall contain the name and description of the escaped mentally disordered person, the name and office, if any, of the person to whom it is issued, the place to which and the person to whom the escaped person is to be returned and the time, not exceeding three months, for which the warrant is valid.

• Marginal note:Custody of recaptured persons

  (3) An escaped person who is returned to custody under this section shall remain in custody under the authority by virtue of which he was detained prior to his escape.

Marginal note:Arrangements for care in provincial institutions

• 56. (1) The Commissioner may, subject to the approval of the Minister, arrange with any province for the removal of neglected children from the Territories to foster homes or suitable institutions in that province, for their care, education and maintenance therein and for the compensation to be paid therefor to that province.

• Marginal note:Payment out of Northwest Territories C.R.F.

  (2) The compensation to be paid to a province under subsection (1) shall be paid out of the Northwest Territories Consolidated Revenue Fund.

Marginal note:Regulations

57. The Governor in Council may make regulations for the protection, care and preservation of sites, works, objects and specimens of archaeological, ethnological or historical importance, interest or significance and explorers' cairns and explorers' documents.

Marginal note:Power to seize

58. Where any peace officer believes on reasonable grounds that any object, specimen or document has been removed, taken, shipped, had in possession or otherwise dealt with contrary to the regulations, he may, in the Territories, without a warrant, effect seizure thereof.

Marginal note:Forfeiture

59. Every seizure made under section 58 shall be reported as soon as practicable to a justice of the peace, who may, on satisfying himself that the object, specimen or document was removed, taken, shipped, had in possession or otherwise dealt with contrary to the regulations, declare it to be forfeited to Her Majesty and on that declaration it is forfeited.