Children Act, 2001

Certified schools under Act of 1908.

159.—(1) Every certified reformatory school or industrial school under Part IV of the Act of 1908, functions in relation to which stood vested in the Minister immediately before the commencement of this section, shall, subject to subsection (2) and at the request or with the agreement of its board of management, on such commencement become a children detention school.

(2) The board of management of a certified reformatory school or industrial school to which subsection (1) relates may, on or before the commencement of this section, give notice to the Minister in writing that it wishes to resign the certificate for the school either from such commencement or at the expiration of 12 months from the date of the notice, whichever is the sooner, and on such commencement, or, as the case may be, at the expiration of 12 months from the date of the notice (unless before that time the notice is withdrawn), the resignation of the certificate shall take effect.

(3) The lawfulness of the detention of any child or youthful offender (within the meaning of the Act of 1908) in any existing certified reformatory school or industrial school shall not be affected by the commencement of this section.

(4) Any reference in any enactment to a reformatory school or an industrial school shall be construed as a reference to a children detention school.