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Reformatory and Industrial Schools Act 1901

Act that repealed the 1866 Reformatory and 1866 Destitute Children's Acts. It retained provisions for offenders under sixteen, and for vagrant and destitute children, and provided a court with the power to commit a child to the care of a relative, a named person, the State Children's Relief Board or to a public industrial school.

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1901
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