CrPC § 399 — Confinement of youthful offenders in reformatories

Statutory text (English)

(1) When any person under the age of
fifteen years is sentenced by any Criminal Court to imprisonment for any offence, the Court may direct that
such person, instead of being imprisoned in a criminal jail, shall be confined in any reformatory established
by the
[Provincial Government] as a fit place for confinement, in which there are means of suitable
discipline and of training in some branch of useful industry or which is kept by a person willing to obey such
rules as the
[Provincial Government] prescribes with regard to the discipline and training of persons
confined therein.

(2) All persons confined under this section shall be subject to the rules so prescribed.

(3) This section shall not apply to any place in which the Reformatory Schools Act, 1897 (VIII of 1897),
is for the time being in force.

Source and verification

Source citation: CrPC (Act V of 1898) s.399: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE' (Act No. V of 1898, last amended 2017-02-16), p. 149, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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