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(1)Section five of this Act (so far as it relates to detention centres) shall apply in relation to any person who has attained the age of seventeen years and who, at .the material time, is detained in a detention centre under a previous sentence or warrant, as it applies in relation to a person under that age.
(2)In relation to a person of any age who is detained as aforesaid, the said section five shall have effect subject to the following modifications, that is to say:—
(a)so much of that section as relates to committal to a remand home shall not apply;
(b)paragraph (a) of subsection (2) and subsection (3) shall be omitted.
(3)Where, after a warrant or order has been issued or made by a magistrates' court—
(a)committing a person to prison, or ordering him to be committed to custody in a remand home, for any default; or
(b)fixing a term of imprisonment, or of detention in a remand home, to be served by him in the event of any default,
it is made to appear to a justice of the peace that that person is for the time being detained in a detention centre, the justice may amend the warrant or order by substituting that centre for the prison or remand home named therein and, where a prison is so named and the term of imprisonment specified in the warrant or order exceeds six months, by reducing that term to six months.
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