Section 10: Corporal punishment of male offenders under 19 years.

(1) Where a male person apparently under the age of nineteen years is convicted of an offence under this Act then, notwithstanding anything in any other law, the court-
(a) shall have power to sentence the offender to caning, either in addition to or instead of any other punishment or order which the court has power to impose or make, and may specify any number of strokes not exceeding forty-nine; and
(b) unless it appears to the court that there are strong reasons why it should not do so in his particular case shall sentence the offender to caning; and
(c) if it specifies more than twelve strokes, shall direct the sentence to be carried out on successive days by instalments of which each (or, if the total number of strokes specified is not a multiple of seven, each except the last) shall consist of seven strokes.
(2) Subject to subsection (1) of this section, the provisions of any law relating to the execution of sentences of caning shall apply in relation to any such sentence imposed by virtue of that subsection.
(3) References in this section to conviction and to sentence shall, in relation to a juvenile court, be construed respectively as references to the court being satisfied of the offender's guilt and to the making of an order.
(4) The provisions of this section shall be without prejudice to any power to impose sentences of caning conferred by any other law.
(5) In its application to Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Rivers States this section shall have effect with substitution of references to whipping for references to caning.