Section 10. Power of Magistrates to direct boys under sixteen sentenced to imprisonment to be sent to Reformatory Schools

10. Power of Magistrates to direct boys under sixteen sentenced to imprisonment to be sent to Reformatory Schools. 11. Preliminary enquiry and finding as to age of youthful offender. 10. The officer in charge of a prison in which a youthful offender is confined, in execution of a sentence of imprisonment, may bring him, if he has not then attained the age of fifteen years, before the District Magistrate within whose jurisdiction such prison is situate; and such Magistrate may, if such youthful offender appears to be a proper person to be an inmate of a Reformatory School, direct that, Procedures where Magistrate is not empowered to pass an order under section 8. Power of Magistrates to direct boys under fifteen sentenced to imprisonment to be sent to Reformatory Schools. instead 34 Reformatory Schools. [ACT VIII (II.—Reformatory Schools.—Sections 11-12.) instead of undergoing the residue of his sentence, he shall be sent to a Reformatory School, and there detained for a period which shall be subject to the same limitations as are prescribed by or under section 8, with reference to the period of detention thereby authorised. Preliminary enquiry and finding as to age of youthful offender.