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TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 2

2. The powers exercisable by the Ministry of Home Affairs (in this Act
referred to as "the Ministry") under the Prison Act shall include the
provision, maintenance, administration, regulation and management of

(a)young offenders centres, that is to say, places in which offenders, who
have been ordered to be detained therein under any enactment, may be kept for
suitable training and instruction; and

(b)remand centres, that is to say, places

(i)for the detention of persons not less than fourteen but under twenty-one
years of age who are either remanded or committed in custody for trial; and

(ii)for the detention for any temporary purpose, or for the purpose of
providing maintenance, domestic and other services for that centre, of any
persons required to be detained in an institution to which the Prison Act
applies; and

(c)facilities in remand centres for the observation of any person detained
therein on whose physical or mental condition a medical report may be
desirable for the assistance of the court in determining the most suitable
method of dealing with his case;

Visiting committees for young offenders centres and remand centres.

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