Section 8. Every Committee of Visitors appointed under section twelve for any Reformatory School shall, at least once in every month,

18. Every Committee of Visitors appointed under section twelve for any Reformatory School shall, at least once in every month, Duties of Committee of Visitors. (a) visit the school, to hear complaints and see that the requirements of section five have been complied with, and that the management of the school is proper in all respects, (b) examine the punishment-book, (c) bring Reformatory Schools. [ACT V (c) bring any special cases to the notice of the Inspector-General, and (d) see that no person is illegally detained in the school. Powers of Board of Management. 8. Whenever any youthful offender under the age of sixteen years has been or shall be sentenced to imprisonment, the officer in charge of the Jail in which such offender is confined may bring him before the Magistrate within whose jurisdiction such Jail is situate; and the Magistrate, if he thinks the offender (a) under the age of sixteen years and (b) a proper person to be an inmate of a Reformatory School, may direct him to be sent to a Reformatory School, and to be there detained for a period which shall be not less than two and not more than seven years and which shall be in conformity with any rules made under section twenty-two and for the time being in force. In this section "Magistrate" means in the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, a Magistrate of Police or Presidency Magistrate, and elsewhere a Magistrate of the first class.