Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In section 64 of the principal Act,- (/) for the words "may direct", the words "shall direct" shall be substituted; (iI) the following proviso and Explanation shall be inserted, nameiy:- "Provided that the State Government, or as the case may be the P.oard, may, for any adequate and special reason to be recorded in writing, review the case of a juvenile in conflict with law undergoing a sentence of imprisonment, who has ceased to be so on or before the commencement of this Act, and pass appropriate order in the interest of such juvenile. up/anatian.-In all cases where a juvenile in conflict with law is undergoing a sentence of imprisonment at any stage on the date of commencement of this Act, his case including the issue of juvenility, shall be deemed to be decided in tenns of clause (I) of section 2 and other provisions contained in this Act and the rules made thereunder, irrespective of the fact that he ceases to be a juvenile on or before such date and accordingly he shall be sent to the special home or a fit institution, as the case may be, for the remainder of the period of the sentence but such sentence shall not in any case exceed the maximum period provided in section 15 of this Act.".