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 1897.] (II.-Reformatory Schools.—Sections 9-10.) The powers so conferred on the Court by this section shall be exercised only by (a) the High Court, (b) a Court of Session, (c) a District Magistrate, and (d) any Magistrate specially empowered by the Local Government in this behalf, and may he exercised by such Courts whether the case comes before them originally or on appeal.

The Local Government may make rules for—

defining what youthful offendors should be sent to Reformatory. Schools, having regard to the nature of their offences or other considerations, and

regulating the periods for which youthful offenders may be sent to such schools according to their ages or other considerations.

When any Magistrate not empowered to pass an order under the last foregoing section is of opinion that a youthful offender convicted by him is a proper person to be an inmate of a Reformatory School, he may, without passing sentence, record such opinion and submit his proceedings. and forward the youthful offender to the District Magistrate to whom he is subordinate.

The Magistrate to whom the proceedings are so submitted may make such further inquiry (if any) as he may think fit and pass such sentence and order for the detention in a Reformatory School of the youthful offender, or otherwise, as he might have passed if such youthful offender had been originally tried by him.

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,