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Section 305 — Reformative training

Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.

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305.Reformative training
Subsection (1) — Original text to 30 December 2025superseded

(1)Where a person is convicted by a court of an offence punishable with imprisonment and that person is, on the day of his or her conviction —

(a)of or above the16 ageyears of 16 yearsage but below the21 ageyears of 21 years;age; or

(b)of or above the14 ageyears of 14 yearsage but below the16 ageyears of 16 yearsage and has, before that conviction, been dealt with by a court in connection with another offence and had, for that offence, been ordered to be sent to an approved schoola juvenile rehabilitation centre established under section 6490 of the Children and Young Persons Act (Cap. 38),1993,

the court may impose a sentence of reformative training in lieu of any other sentence if it is satisfied, having regard to his or her character, previous conduct and the circumstances of the offence, that to reform him or her and to prevent crime he or she should undergo a period of training in a reformative training centre.

Subsection (1) — From 30 December 2025 (current)rewritten by Statutes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Act 2024, Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2025, Criminal Procedure Code 2010 (Amendment of First Schedule) Order 2025

(1)If —

(a)a person —

(i)is convicted by a court of an offence punishable with imprisonment; and

(ii)is, on the day of his or her conviction, of or above 18 years of age but below 21 years of age;

(b)a person —

(i)is convicted by a court other than the Youth Court of an offence punishable with imprisonment;

(ii)is a person mentioned in section 42(2A)(b), (c), (d) or (e) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1993; and

(iii)is, on the day of his or her conviction, of or above 16 years of age but below 18 years of age;

(c)a person —

(i)is convicted by a court of an offence punishable with imprisonment;

(ii)is, on the day of his or her conviction, of or above 14 years of age but below 18 years of age;

(iii)has, before that conviction, been dealt with by a court in connection with another offence; and

(iv)had, for that offence mentioned in sub-paragraph (iii), been ordered to be sent to a juvenile rehabilitation centre established under section 90 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1993; or

(d)a person —

(i)is convicted by a court of an offence punishable with imprisonment;

(ii)is, on the day of his or her conviction, of or above 14 years of age but below 18 years of age; and

(iii)is, in the opinion of the court, a person of so unruly a character that he or she cannot be safely detained in a juvenile rehabilitation centre or a place of detention,

the court may impose a sentence of reformative training in lieu of any other sentence if the court is satisfied, having regard to the person’s character, previous conduct and the circumstances of the offence, that to reform the person and to prevent crime, the person should undergo a period of training in a reformative training centre.

(2)Where a young person has been ordered by a JuvenileYouth Court under the Children and Young Persons Act 1993 to be brought before a District Court, then the court must inquire into the circumstances of the case and may —

(a)if satisfied that to reform himthe young person he or she should undergo a period of training in a reformative training centre, sentence him or her to reformative training instead of any other sentence; or

(b)in any case, deal with himthe young person in the manner that the JuvenileYouth Court might have dealt with him.him or her.

(3)Before imposing any sentence of reformative training, the court must call for and consider any report submitted by the DirectorCommissioner of Prisons, or any person authorised by the DirectorCommissioner of Prisons to submit the report on histhe Commissioner’s behalf, on the offender’s physical and mental condition and his suitability for the sentence, the offender’s suitability for the sentence, and the nature of the rehabilitation that is recommended for the offender; and if the court has not received such a report, it must remand the offender in custody for a period or periods, not exceeding one month in the case of any single period, to enable the report to be submitted.

(4)The court must give a copy of any report submitted by the DirectorCommissioner of Prisons to the offender or histhe offender’s advocate and to the Public Prosecutor.

(5)A person sentenced to reformative training must be detained in accordance with the regulations made under section 42884(1) of the Prisons Act 1933.

(6)A sentence of reformative training must specify, as the minimum period of detention, such of the following periods as the court may determine to be the most appropriate for the rehabilitation of the offender:

(a)6 months beginning on the date the sentence takes effect;

(b)12 months beginning on the date the sentence takes effect.

(7)A sentence of reformative training (including any period of supervision under the sentence) must not extend beyond 54 months after the date the sentence takes effect.

(8)The period of detention under a sentence of reformative training must not extend beyond —

(a)54 months after the date the sentence takes effect, in any case that may be prescribed; or

(b)36 months after the date the sentence takes effect, in any other case.

(9)A sentence of reformative training (including any period of supervision under the sentence) that is imposed on a person expires if, while the person is serving the sentence —

(a)a sentence of corrective training, or another sentence of reformative training, is imposed on the person; or

(aa)a sentence for public protection or sentence for enhanced public protection is imposed on the person; or

(b)the person is detained under an order made under section 30(1) of the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act (Cap. 67).1955.

(10)Where a person, while serving a sentence of reformative training (including any period of supervision under the sentence), is sentenced to imprisonment, the sentence of reformative training does not expire, but runs concurrently with the sentence of imprisonment.