Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 — Section 399: Confinement of youthful offenders in reformatories

399. Confinement of youthful offenders in reformatories.__ (1) When any person under the age of fifteen years is sentenced by any Criminal Court to imprisonment for any offence, the Court may direct that such person, instead of being imprisoned in a criminal jail, shall be confined in any reformatory established by the 1[Provincial Government] as a fit place for confinement, in which there are means of suitable discipline and of training in some branch of useful industry or which is kept by a person willing to obey such rules as the 1[Provincial Government] prescribes with regard to the discipline and training of persons confined therein.

(2)All persons confined under this section shall be subject to the rules so prescribed.

(3)This section shall not apply to any place in which the Reformatory Schools Act, 1897 (VIII of 1897), is for the time being in force.