Escape from children’s remand home or rehabilitation school

(1) Any child who escapes from a children’s remand home or while being escorted thereto or therefrom, may be apprehended without warrant and dealt with in accordance with section 157.
(2) Any child who has been committed to a rehabilitation school and who—
(a) escapes from such school or from any hospital, home or institution in which the child is receiving medical or other treatment, or while being conveyed to or from any such place; or
(b) being absent from such school on leave of absence or on licence, runs away from the person in whose charge the child has been placed, or fails to return to the school on the expiration of his or her leave, or on the revocation of his or her licence,
shall be apprehended without warrant and brought before a Court having jurisdiction over the area where the school is situated to be dealt with in accordance with section 157.
(3) Where a child is restored to a rehabilitation school under subsection (2),the period of his or her committal shall be increased, over and above any increase ordered by Court, by a period equal to the period during which he or she was at large and absent from the school.