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 1897.] (I.—Preliminary.—Sections 3-4. II.-Reformatory Schools.-Section 5.) refer to this Act, or to the corresponding portion thereof.

3. From the date fixed by any notification issued under section 1, sub-section (3), section 399 of the of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882, shall be repealed in the province to which the notification relates.

4. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,—

"youthful offender" means any boy who has been convicted of any offence punishable with transportation or imprisonment and who, at the time of such conviction, was under the age of fifteen years;

"Inspector General" includes any officer appointed by the Local Government to perform all or any of the duties imposed by this Act on the Inspector General: and

District Magistrate" shall include a Chief Presidency Magistrate.

II.-Reformatory Schools.

5. With the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, the Local Government may—

establish and maintain Reformatory Schools at such places as it may think fit;

use as Reformatory Schools schools kept by persons willing to act in conformity with such rules, consistent with this Act; as the Local Government may prescribe in this behalf;

direct that any school so established or used shall cease to exist as a Reformatory School or to be used as such.

6. Every