Detention order

(1) The order of the Minister or a court by which a child is ordered to be detained in a certified institution shall be specified in the form of the Schedule, or to the like effect. (2) No such order shall specify the period during which the child is to be so detained. (3) Every child ordered by the Minister or by a court under this Act to be detained at a certified institution, shall be so detained and dealt with in accordance with the Act until such time as the Minister may order his discharge therefrom, but in no case shall any child be detained at a certified institution beyond the age of eighteen years.