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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 87

87.(1) Where a court orders a child to be sent to a training school, the order
shall be an authority for his detention in a training school until the
expiration of a period of three years from the date of the order or until the
expiration of four months after he attains the upper limit of
compulsory school age whichever is the later.

(2) Where a court orders a young person to be sent to a training school, the
order shall be an authority for his detention in a training school

(a)if at the date of the order he has not attained the age of sixteen, until
the expiration of a period of three years from the date of the order; and

(b)if at the date of the order he has attained the age of sixteen, until he
attains the age of nineteen.

[(3) Where a person liable to be detained in a training school under a
training school or other order is ordered to be detained in a
young offenders centre, the training school or other order shall cease to have
effect.]

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