Section 10: Remand or committal to custody

10. Remand or committal to custody (1) (a) Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), any Court on remanding or committing for trial a juvenile who is not released on bail, shall, instead of committing him to prison, commit him to custody in a place of remand provided under this Act and named in the commitment, to be there detained for the period for which he is remanded or until he is released in due course of law. (b) Where the Court certifies that a young person is of so unruly a character that he cannot safely be so committed, or that he is of so depraved a character that he is not a fit person to be so detained, the Court need not commit him to a place of remand. (c) This section shall not affect any power of a District Court under section 57 of the District and Intermediate Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act, to commit a person who has attained the age of 16 to prison until the next Assizes. (2) A commitment under this section may be varied, or, in the case of a young person who proves to be of so unruly a character that he cannot be safely detained in a place of remand, or to be of so depraved a character that he is not a fit person to be so detained, revoked by the Court which made the order, or where application cannot conveniently be made to that Court, by a Court having jurisdiction in the place where the Court which made the order sat, and where it is revoked the young person may be committed to prison.