Section 22. Superintendent to be deemed guardian of youthful offenders

22. Superintendent to be deemed guardian of youthful offenders. Power to apprentice youthful offender. 23. Duties of Committee of Visitors. 24. Powers of Board of Management. 22. (1) The Superintendent of a Reformatory School shall be deemed to be the guardian of every youthful offender detained in such school, within the meaning of Act No. XIX of 1850 (concerning the binding of apprentices). (2) If it appears to the Superintendent that any youthful offender licensed under section 18 has behaved well during one or more periods of his license, the Superintendent may, with the sanction of the Committee, apprentice him under the provisions of the said Act, and on such apprenticement the right to detain such youthful offender in a Reformatory School shall cease and the unexpired term (if any) of his sentence shall be cancelled.