Section 256 Child’s Right Act
Section 256 Child’s Right Act 2003 is about Transfer from Children Correctional Centre to Special Children Centre. It is under Part XXII (Approved Institutions and Post‐Release Supervision) of the Act.
(1) If the Director or Comptroller‐General reports to the Minister or Commissioner as the case may be, that a child detained in a Children Correctional Centre is incorrigible, or is exercising a bad influence on the other inmates of the institution, the Minister or Commissioner may direct that the child be committed to a Special Children Correctional Centre for such term, not exceeding the unexpired portion of the term for which the child is then liable to be detained in the Children Correctional Centre as the Court may determine.
(2) A child committed to a Special Children Correctional Centre under subsection (1) of this section shall, for the purposes of this Act, be treated as if he has been ordered to be committed to the Children Correctional Centre for that term.
(3) No report made under subsection (1) of this section by the Director or the Comptroller‐General to the Minister or Commissioner, as the case may be, shall be made earlier than six months following the date of the order committing the child concerned to the Children Correctional Centre.
