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(II—Reformatory Schols.-Sections 13-16.)

previously undergone shall be treated as detention in a Reformatory School.

Persons found to be over eighteen years not to be detained in Reformatory Schools. 13. (1) If at any time after a youthful offender has been sent to a Reformatory School it appears to found to be the Committee of Visitors or Board of Management, as the case may be, that the age of such youthful offender has been understated in the order. for detention, and that he will attain the age of eighteen years before the expiration of the period for which he has been ordered to be detained, they shall report the case for the orders of the Local Government.

No person shall be detained in a Reformatory School after he has been found by the Local Government to have attained the age of eighteen years.

Discharge or removal by order of Government. 14. The Local Government may at any time order any youthful offender—

to be discharged from a Reformatory School;

to be removed from one Reformatory School to another such school situate within the territories subject to such Government: Provided that the whole period of his detention in a Reformatory School shall not be increased by such removal:

Power to Governor General in Council to direct use of Reformatories in one province for reception of youthful offenders from another. 15. (1) The Governor General in Council may by general or special order direct that any Reformatory School situated in one province shall be available for the reception of youthful offenders directed to be sent to any Reformatory School by any Court or Magistrate in any other province.

(2) Any such order may also provide for the removal of the youthful offender, and the cost of his maintenance, and may give any such further directions as may be necessary.

Certain orders not subject to appeal or revision. 16. Nothing, contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882 X of 1882., shall be construed to authorise any Court or Magistrate to alter or reverse in appeal or revision any order passed with respect to the age of a youthful offender or the substitution of an order fordetention