CO129-537-2 Industry and Reformatory Schools Ordinance 1932 17-3-1932 - 29-4-1933 — Page 14

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one for the real offender and

or young person

one for the child brought

before the court under

Section 17 of Ordinance No.1

of 1932

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and using both

terms in conjunction where

both classes are affected.

6.

It may be urged that

this is merely a question

of the use of terms. The

Ordinance, however, makes

it clear that a reformatory

is a place where "youthful

offenders" are "reformed", and

the fact of residence in a

reformatory, or the fact

a young person child had

that a child/had been dealt

with as a "youthful offender"

would be more apparant to

outside observers than the

status of an inmate of a

reformatory, or the ground

or young person

upon which a child/was dealt

with

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