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(1) Notwithstanding anythiilg to the contra• may not be ry contained in any other Jaw for the time being paas~edt d 1. in force, no delinquent child shall be sentenced gains e in- d h . · · d · quent chi!- to eat or 1mpr1sonment, or comm1tte to prison dren. in default of payment of fine or in default of furnishing :security: Provider! that where a child who has attained the age of fourteen years has committed an offence and the Children's Court is satisfied that the offence committee! is of so serious a nature or that his conduct and behaviour have been such that it would not be in his interest or in tni:: interest of other children in a Special School to send him to such Special School and that none of the other measures provicled under this Act is suitable or sufficient, the Children's Court may order the delinquent child to be kept in safe custody in such place and manller as it thinks fit and shall report the case for the orders of the State Government. (2) On receipt of the report from Children's Court under sub-section (1) the State Government may make such arrangement in respect of the child as it deems proper and may order such delinquent child to be de- tained at such place and on such conditions as it thinks fit: Provided that the period of detention so ordered shall not exceed the maximum period of imprison- ment to which the child could have been sentenced for the offence committed. · Proceeding