Section 26. Power of Board to make rules

IV 26. Power of Board to make rules. IV.—Offences in relation to Reformatory Schools. 26. (1) With the previous sanction of the Local Government, every Board of Management of a Reformatory School may from time to time make rules consistent with this Act— (i) to prescribe the articles which are to be deemed to be "prohibited articles"; and (ii) to regulate— (a) the conduct of business of the Board; (b) the management of the school; (c) the education and industrial training of youthful offenders; (d) visits to, and communication with, youthful offenders; (e) the terms and conditions under which any articles declared by the Board to be "prohibited articles" may be introduced into or removed out of the school; (f) the manner in which such articles are to be removed when introduced without due authority; (g) the 1897.] Reformatory Schools. 39 (IV.—Offences in relation to Reformatory Schools.—Section 27.) (g) the conditions and limitations under which such articles may be supplied outside the school to any youthful offender under order of detention therein; (h) the conditions on which the possession by any such youthful offender of such articles may be sanctioned; (i) the penalties to be imposed for the supply or possession of such articles when supplied or possessed without due authority; (j) the punishment of offences committed by youthful offenders; and (k) the granting of licenses for the employment of youthful offenders. (2) In the absence of a Board of Management the Local Government may make rules consistent with this Act to regulate for any Reformatory School the matters mentioned in any clause of sub-section (1), other than clause (ii) (a), and also the mode in which the Committee of Visitors shall conduct their business. IV.—Offences in relation to Reformatory Schools.