{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prevention-of-crime-act-1908/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prevention-of-crime-act-1908/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/8/59",
  "legislation_title": "Prevention of Crime Act 1908",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prevention-of-crime-act-1908",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application to reformatory school offences",
  "text": "Where a youthful offender sentenced to detention in a reformatory school is convicted under any Act before a court of summary jurisdiction of the offence of committing a breach of the rules of the school, or of inciting to such a breach, or of escaping from such a school, and the court might under that Act sentence the offender to imprisonment, the court may, in lieu of sentencing him to imprisonment, sentence him to detention in a Borstal Institution for a term not less than one year nor more than three years, and in such case the sentence shall supersede the sentence of detention in a reformatory school.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/59/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:03.003274+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}