(1) For the control and management of every Reformatory School, the State Government shall For notification making such appointments, see different local Rules and Orders.} appoint either (a) a Superintendent and a Committee of Visitors, or (b) a Board of Management.
(2) Every Committee and every Board so appointed must consist of not less than five persons The words "of whom two at least shall be Natives of India " omitted by the A.O.1950.}.
(3) The State Government may suspend or remove nay Superintendent or any Member of a Committee or Board so appointed.
Section 18 - Superintendent may license youthful offenders to employers of about
(1) Every Superintendent so appointed may, with the sanction of the Committee, by license under his hand, permit any youthful offender sent to a Reformatory School, who has attained the age of fourteen years, to live under the charge of any trustworthy and respectable person named in the license, or may officer of Government or a Municipality, being an employer of lab our and willing to receive and take charge of him, on the condition that the employer shall keep such youthful offender employed at some trade, occupation or calling.
(2) The license shall be in force for three months and no longer, but may, at anytime and from time o time until the expiration of the period for which the youthful offender has been directed to be detained, be renewed for three months at a time.
Section 19 - Cancellation of license
The licensee shall be canceled at the desire of the employer named in the license.
Section 20 - Determination of license
If during the term of the license the employer named therein dies, or ceases from business or to employee labors, or the period for which the youthful offender has been directed to be detained in the Reformatory School expires, the license shall thereupon cease and determine.
Section 21 - Cancellation of license in case of ill-treatment
If it appears to the Superintendent that the employer has ill-treated the youthful offended, or has not adequately provided for his lodging and maintenance, the Superintendent may cancel the license.
Section 22 - Superintendent to be deemed guardian of youthful offenders
(1) The Superintendent of a Reformatory School shall be deemed to be the guardian of every youthful offender detained in such school, within the meaning of{The Apprentices Act, 1850.} Act No.19 of 1850 (concerning the binding of apprentices.).
(2) It if appears to the Superintendent that any youthful offender licensed under section 18 has behaved well during one or more periods of his license, the Superintendent may, with the sanction the Committee, apprentice him under the provision of the said Act, and on such apprenticement the right to detain such youthful offender in a Reformatory School shall cease and the unexpired term (if any) of his sentence shall be cancelled. Power to apprentice).
Section 23 - Duties of Committee of Visitors
(1) Every Committee of Visitors appointed under section 17 for a Reformatory School shall, at least once in every month,
(a) visit the school, to hear complaints and se that the requirements of section 6 have been complied with, and that the management of the school is proper in all respects ;
(b) examine the punishment-book ;
(c) bring any special cases to the notice of the Inspector General ; and
(d) see that no person is illegally detained in the school.
(2) If any member of a Committee of Visitors so appointed fails or neglects, during a period of six consecutive months, to visit the school and assist in the discharge of the duties aforesaid, he shall cease to be a member of such Committee.
Section 24 - Powers of Board of Management
if, in exercise of the power conferred by section 17, the State Government appoints a Board of Management for any Reformatory School, such Board shall have the powers and perform the functions of the Superintendent under sections 18 to 22, both inclusive ; and the license mentioned in section 18 may be under the hand of their chairman; and they shall be deemed to be the guardians of the youthful offenders detained in such school.
Section 25 - Power to appoint trustees or other managers of a school to be a Board of Management
The State Government may declare any body of trustees or managers of a school, who are willing to act in conformity with the rules referred to in section 5, clause (b), to be a Board of Management under this Act, and thereupon such body or managers shall have all the powers and perform all the functions of such Broad of Management.
Section 26 - Power of Board to make rules
(1) With the previous sanction of the State Government, every Board of Management of a Reformatory School may form time to time 1 [make rules, by notification in the Official Gazette] consistent with this Act --
(i) to prescribe the articles which are to be deemed to be " prohibited articles" ; and
(ii) to regulate--
(a) the conduct of business of the Board ;
(b) the management of the school;
(c) the education and industrial training of youthful offenders ;
(d) visits to, and communication with, youthful offenders ;
(e) the terms and conditions under which any articles declared by the Board to be "prohibited articles " may be introduced into or removed out of the school ;
(f) the manner in which such articles are to be removed when introduced without due authority ;
(g) the conditions and limitations under which such articles may be supplied outside the school to any youthful offender under order of detention therein ;
(h) the conditions on which the possession by any such youthful offender of such articles may be sanctioned ;
(i) the penalties to be imposed for the supply or possession of such articles when supplied or possessed without due authority ;
(j) the punishment of offenses committed by youthful offenders ; and
(k) the granting of licenses for the employment of youthful offenders.
(2) In the absence of a Board or Management the State Government 1 [make rules, by notification in the Official Gazette] consistent with this Act to regulate for any Reformatory School the matters mentioned in any clause of sub-section (1), other than clause (ii) (a), and also the mode in which the Committee of Visitors shall conduct their business.
2 (3) Every rule made by the State Government or a Board of Management of a Reformatory School under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the State Legislature.".
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1. Substituted for" make rules" by The Delegated Legislation Provisions (Amendment) Act, 2004
2. Inserted by The Delegated Legislation Provisions (Amendment) Act, 2004