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2016 ORDINANCE No. 19 OF 1886 .


Reformatory Schools.


certificate by the Governor to or from a reformatory
school or of the resignation of any such certificate , shall
be sufficient evidence of the fact of the publication of
such notice and also of the fact of a certificate having

been duly granted to or withdrawn from the school named
in the notice, or resigned by the managers thereof.
( 2. ) The grant of a certificate to a certified school may also
be proved by the production of the certificate itself, or
of a copy of the same, purporting to be signed by the
Colonial Secretary .

(3. ) The production of the warrant or other document in
pursuance of which a youthful offender is directed to
be sent to a certified reformatory school , with a state
ment endorsed thereon or annexed thereto, purporting

to be signed by the manager or other person in charge
of the school , to the effect that the offender therein
named was duly received into and is at the date of the
signing thereof detained in the school, or has been
otherwise dealt with according to law, shall in all pro

ceedings relating to such offender be evidence of the
identity of and of the due conviction and detention and

imprisonment of the offender named in the warrant or
other document.

(4. ) A copy of the rules of a certified reformatory school ,
purporting to be signed by the Superintendent of the
Victoria Gaol , shall be evidence of such rules in all
legal proceedings whatever.

(5. ) A school to which any youthful offender is directed to be
sent in pursuance of this Ordinance shall , until the

contrary is proved , be deemed to be a certified reformatory
school within the meaning of this Ordinance .


Legal proceedings.

Service of 21. Any notice may be served on the managers of a certified
notice on
managers reformatory school by delivering the same personally to any one of them,
of school.
[29 & 30 V. c. or by sending it by post or otherwise, in a letter addressed to them or
Ï17, s. 35. ]
any of them at the school , or at the usual or last known place of abode
of any manager, or of their secretary .