Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) NotWithstanding anything to the contrary contained 1 may not be ‘ any other law for the time being in force, no delinquent child passed against be sentence to death or imprisonment, or committed to prison '2 dennquent default of payment of fine or in default of furnishing security : , chil . dren Ptovided that wherea child who has attained the age of fourte years has committed an offence and the juvenile court is satisfied th the ofi'ence committed is of so serious a nature or that his condu and behaviour have been such that it would not be in his interest ’ in the interest of other children in a special school to send him to sue special schOol and that'none of the measures provided under this Aw? is suitable or sufficient, the juvenile court may order the delinque‘l child to be kept in safe custody in such place and manner as it think fit and shall report the case for the orders of the State Government. (2) On receipt of the report from a juvenile court under 311 section (1), the State Government may make such arrangement i; reSpect of the child as he deems proper and may order such delinque ; child to be detained at such place and on such conditions as it thinks fit”? Provided that the petiod of detention so . ordered shall not exceec the maximum period Of 1mprisonment-to which the child could haw; sentenced for- the ofi'ence committed. Orders that