(1)The Secretary of State shall provide such young offenders institutions as appear to him to be necessary, and accordingly, after section 31(1)(c) of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1952 (which relates to remand centres, detention centres and borstal institutions), there shall be inserted the following paragraph— “and
(d)young offenders institutions, that is to say, places in which offenders upon whom detention therein has been imposed under the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1963, may be kept for suitable training and instruction.”
(2)In any enactment—
(a)any reference to a sentence of imprisonment as including a reference to a sentence of any other form of detention shall be construed as including a reference to a sentence of detention in a young offenders institution; and
(b)any reference to imprisonment as including any other form of detention shall be construed as including a reference to detention in a young offenders institution."