14A. Reformative training

Where a person is convicted by the Intermediate Courts or the

is, on the day of his conviction, above the age of 14

Where a person is convicted by a Court of a Magistrate of an offence punishable with imprisonment and that person -

Where a person is so committed for sentence, the High Court shall inquire into the circumstances of the case and may -

Where a person has been ordered by a Juvenile Court under the Children and Young Persons Act (Chapter 219) to be brought before a

Before a sentence of reformative training is passed under this section, and before a person is committed for sentence under subsection (2), the Court shall consider any report or representations made by or on behalf of the Director of Prisons on the offender's physical and mental condition and his suitability for the sentence; and if the Court has not received such a report or representations it shall remand the offender in custody for such a period or periods, not exceeding 3 weeks in the case of any single period, as the Court thinks necessary to enable the report or representations to be made.

A copy of any report or representation made to the Court by the Director of Prisons for the purposes of subsection (5) shall be given by the Court to the offender or his legal representative.

A person sentenced to reformative training shall be detained subject to his release in accordance with Schedule 3 and while so detained shall be treated in such manner as may be prescribed by rules made under section 384.