Section 3: Minister may by order constitute and discontinue remand centres and borstal institutions

(1)
[1961 No. 18.]
The Minister may by order declare any building or place situated on land which has been set aside or acquired for the public purpose of the Federation to be-
(a) a remand centre, that is to say a place for the detention of persons not less than sixteen but under twenty-one years of age who are remanded or committed in custody for trial or sentence; or
(b) a borstal institution, that is to say a place in which offenders who were not less than sixteen but under twenty-one years of age on the day of conviction may be detained and such training and instruction as will conduce to their reformation and the prevention of crime,
and by the same or any subsequent order declare the area for which any such building or place shall be used for the purposes of a remand centre or borstal institution.
(2) The Minister may, by order, direct that any building or place declared to be a remand centre or borstal institution under subsection (1) of this section shall cease to be used as a remand centre or borstal institution.
(3) A prison or any part of a prison shall not be deemed to be discontinued as a prison by reason only that it has been declared to be a remand centre or borstal institution under subsection (1).