Volume VIII

YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS (TRAINING SCHOOLS)
ORDINANCE

Arrangement of Sections

1. Short title.

2. Establishment of training schools.

3. Appointment of officers.

4. Orders for detention in training schools.

5. Orders in respect of persons detained in approved or certified schools.

6. Warrant of commitment to training school.

7. Application of Chapter XXVII of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act to orders for detention.

8. Transfer of person from prison to training school.

9. Release on licence of persons detained in training schools.

10. Supervision after term of detention in training schools.

11. Substitution of imprisonment for detention in training school.

12. Payments to societies and persons assisting or supervising persons discharged from training schools.

13. Removal from one training school to another.

14. Regulations.

15. Application of Prisons Ordinance and other written law.

16. Interpretation.

SCHEDULES

28 of 1939,

8 of 1943,

41 of 1944,

42 of 1944,

24 of 2021.

AN ORDINANCE to make provision for the establishment of training schools, for the detention, training and reformation of Youthful Offenders, and for purposes connected therewith.

[Date of Commencement: 22nd January, 1940]

1. Short title.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Youthful Offenders (Training Schools) Ordinance.

2. Establishment of training school.

(1) The Minister may by Order published in the Gazette establish one or more training schools in which youthful offenders may be detained and be given such training and instruction and be subjected to such discipline and moral influences as will conduce to their reformation and to the repression of crime.

(2) Every training school shall be under the general control and superintendence of the Commissioner.