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1 908, and a sentence of imprisonment for the same period as the period for 'rOvisiOns for which detention was ordered. ippcal and , .evision. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 423 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, when a person who at V of the time of his conviction was less than twenty-one years of agc 1898- I has been convicted of an offence or when such person on being ordered to furnish security for good behaviour has failed to furnish sucll security, an appellate court or the High Court in the exercise of its powers of revision, may in pursuance of sub-section (1) and rhe provisions of thc Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, and aAer 1898. making such inquiry as it may deem fit alter a sentence of impris~nment or an order of commihent to prison under section 123 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to an order of detention, if for reasons described in sub-section (I) of section 5, it considers such alteration expedient, and may alter an order of detention to a sentence of imprisonment or an order of commibnent to prison under section -123 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as the case may be, provided that the sentence of imprisonment, order of commilment or order of detention, shall not be in excess of the powers of the trial Magistrate or court. (3) Any person who has been ordered to be detained in a Borstal lnstitu tian under the provisions of section 6 for a period -