Reformatory and Industrial Schools (Manx Children) Act 1884

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1884 c. 40


Reformatory and Industrial Schools (Manx Children) Act, 1884.

(47 & 48 Vict.) CHAPTER 40.

An Act for enabling Manx Children to be sent to Reformatory or Industrial Schools in Great Britain.

[28th July 1884]

B E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Short title of Act.

1 Short title of Act.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as theReformatory and Industrial Schools (Manx Children) Act, 1884.

S-2 Government of Isle of Man may contract with reformatory or industrial schools in Great Britain for reception of Manx children.

2 Government of Isle of Man may contract with reformatory or industrial schools in Great Britain for reception of Manx children.

2. Where under any Act or Acts of the Legislature of the Isle of Man it is or may be lawful for the justices or a court in the said island to sentence a young person to be sent to a reformatory or industrial school in Great Britain, and provision is made under any such Act or Acts to the satisfaction of a Secretary of State—

(1) (1.) For the expenses of the conveyance of such young person to the school to which he is sent, and for his reconveyance on his discharge from such school to the Isle of Man; and

(2) (2.) For the expenses of the maintenance of such young person at such school; and

(3) (3.) For the contribution (if any) to be made by the parent, stepparent, guardian, or other person liable to maintain the child so sent, and the mode in which such contribution is to be raised.

The Government of the said Isle may, with the assent of a Secretary of State and with the approval of the Tynwald court, contract with the managers of any reformatory or industrial school in Great Britain for the reception of young persons sentenced to be sent to any such school by justices or a court in the said Isle.

S-3 Manx children may be sent to reformatory or industrial school in Great Britain.

3 Manx children may be sent to reformatory or industrial school in Great Britain.

3. A young person sentenced as aforesaid in the said Isle to be sent to a reformatory or industrial school in Great Britain may be conveyed in the custody of any constable or other person acting under a warrant issued by any competent justices or court in the Isle of Man, to the school to which he is sentenced to be sent, and he shall during his conveyance to...

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