(1) Cabinet may establish—
(a) remand centres, for the detention of persons not less than 14 years but under 16 years of age who are remanded or committed in custody for trial or sentence;
(b) young offenders' institutions, places in which offenders sentenced to detention in a young offenders' institution may be kept.
(2) The Minister shall provide, in remand centres, facilities for the observation and examination of any person detained therein on whose physical or mental condition a medical report may be desirable for the assistance of the Court in determining the most suitable method of dealing with that person's case.
(3) The Minister shall appoint, for every remand centre and young offenders' institution, a Visiting Committee comprising such number of males and females as the Minister may determine however that, not less than 2 of the persons appointed shall be justices of the peace.
(4) Where any person committed to any correctional facility appears to be under the age of 16 years, the Minister shall order such inmate to be transferred to a remand center or young offenders' institution as the case may be.
(5) A person who is required to be taken to a young offenders' institution or remand centre may, until arrangements can be made for taking him or her there, be temporarily detained in some other place suitable for such detention.
(6) Subject to the provisions of this section, where a person serving a sentence of detention in a young offenders' institution has attained the age of 16 years, the person in charge of the institution shall have power to transfer such person to a correctional facility.
(7) No person shall be detained in a young offenders institution after he or she has attained the age of 16 years, and accordingly any person so detained shall, not later than the day immediately preceding his or her sixteenth birthday, be transferred to a correctional facility.
(8) Where a person has been transferred to a correctional facility under this section, he or she shall be incarcerated for the remainder of his or her unexpired sentence.
(9) The provisions of this Act shall apply to remand centres and young offenders' institutions, to persons detained therein and to Visiting Committees appointed therefore under subsection (3) in like manner as the said provisions apply to correctional facilities, inmates and Visiting Justices appointed for correctional facilities under this Act.