# Prevention of Crime Act 1908, Section 2: Application to reformatory school offences


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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/59/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/prevention-of-crime-act-1908/section-2
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