The Short Title of this Act is “The Neglected and Criminal Children Acts Amendment Act, 1881.”

Notwithstanding anything in the said Acts contained, it shall be lawful for any Resident Magistrate or Justices, or any Judge, before whom any child is found to be neglected or is convicted, or is shown to be an inmate of any such schools, as the case may be, in his or their discretion, and upon the application of any person, in a summary manner, to order such child to be sent or removed respectively to any industrial or reformatory school established in any part of the colony:

Provided always that no child shall be so sent or removed to any school supported for any one or more than one religious denomination, unless such child shall be a member of such denomination, or of one of such denominations, if more than one.

Every order issued under this Act shall be executed and obeyed by the person to whom the same is directed, and shall be sufficient authority to all persons concerned for dealing with the child as therein mentioned.

Every child removed from one school to another under the provisions of this Act shall be liable to detention in the school to which such child is so removed, for the same period, and be subject to the same liabilities, and be dealt with in the same manner, as if such child had not been so removed as aforesaid.