(II.-Reformatory Schools.-Sections 6-8.)
Requisites of schools. 6. Every school so established or used must provide—
(a) sufficient means of separating the inmates at night;
(b) proper sanitary arrangements, water-supply, food, clothing and bedding for the youthful offenders detained therein;
(c) the means of giving such youthful offenders industrial training;
(d) an infirmary or proper place for the reception of such youthful offenders when sick.
Inspection of Reformatory Schools. 7. (1) Every school intended to be established or Reformatory used as a Reformatory School shall, before being used as such, be inspected by the Inspector General, and if he finds that the requirements of section 6 have been complied with, and that, in his opinion, such school is fitted for the reception of such youthful offenders as may be sent there under this Act, he shall certify to that effect, and such certificate shall be published in the local official Gazette, together with an order of the Local Government establishing the school as a Reformatory School or direvting that it shall be used as such, and the school shall thoreupon be deemed to be a Reformatory School.
(2) Every such school shall, from time to time, and at least once in every year, be visited by the said Inspector General, who shall send to Local Government a report on the condition of the school in such form as the Local Government may prescribe.
Power of Courts to direct youthful offenders to be sent to Reformatory School. 8. (1) Whenever any youthful offender is sentenced to transportation or imprisonment, and is, in the judgment of the Court by which he is sentenced, a proper person to be an inmate of a Reformatory School, the Court may, subject to any rules made by the Local Government, direct that, instead of undergoing his sentence, he shall be sent to such a school, and be there detained for a period which shall be not less than three or more than seven years.
