Minister may transfer prisoner under sixteen years of age to an institution

The Minister may order any child apparently under the age of sixteen years who is undergoing a sentence of imprisonment, in any prison in Belize, to be removed and taken to a certified institution, and the child shall be there detained for such period of time as the detention order shall specify and be subject to all the provisions of this Act as if he had been originally ordered to be detained at a certified 12 (Children’s Reformation)