- Every youthful offender directed by a Court or Magistrate to be sent to a Reformatory School shall be sent to such Reformatory School as the Local Government may, by general or special order, appoint for the reception of youthful offenders so dealt with by such Court or Magistrate :Provided that, if accommodation in a Reformatory School is not immediately available for such youthful offender, he may be detained in the juvenile ward or such other suitable part of a prison as the Local Government may direct -(a)until he can be sent to a Reformatory School, or(b)until the term of his original sentence expires, whichever event may first happen. Should the term of his original sentence first expire, he shall thereupon be released, but, should he be sent to a Reformatory School then the period of detention previously undergone shall be treated as detention in a Reformatory School.
