BORSTAL INSTITUTIONS AND REMAND CENTRES ACT

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BORSTAL INSTITUTIONS AND REMAND CENTRES ACT 1962

CHAPTER B11, LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, L.F.N. 2004

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Part I: Preliminary

1.     Short title, commencement and application

2.     Interpretation

Part II: Establishment and Government of Remand Centres and Borstal institutions

3.     Minister May by order constitute and discontinue remand centres and borstal institutions

4.     Regulations

5.     Standing orders

Part III

6.     Director of Prisons to have charge of remand centres and Borstal institutions

7.     Officers of remand centres and Borstal institutions

8.     Visitors and visiting committees

9.     Voluntary visitors

Part IV: Miscellaneous

10.    Application of Prisons Act

11.    Facilities for observation in remand centres

12.    Transfer from borstal institution to prison

13.    Release and supervision after borstal training

14.    Prison officers’ reward fund

Schedule – Borstal Training

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BORSTAL INSTITUTIONS AND REMAND CENTRES ACT

An Act to provide for the establishment of borstal institutions and remand centres and for regulating the government thereof.

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COMMENCEMENT:    [1st April, 1962]

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