Orders that may not be passed against juvenile offenders

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other law for the time being in force, no juvenile offender shall be sentenced to death or imprisonment or committed to prison in default of payment of fine or in default of furnishing security. (2) When a child is found to have committed an offence of so serious a nature that the juvenile court is of opinion that no punishment, which under the provisions of this Act, it is authorised to inflict, is sufficient or when the juvenile court is satisfied that the child is of so unruly or of so depraved a character that he cannot be committed to a certified school or detained in a place of safety, and that none of the other methods in which the case may be legally dealt with is suitable, the court shall order the child to be kept in safe custody in such place or manner as it thinks fit and shall report the case for the orders of the Government. (3) On receipt of a report from a juvenile court under sub-section (2), the Government may make such arrangements in respect of the child as they deem proper and may order such child to be detained at such place and on such conditions as they think fit: Provided that the period of detention so ordered shall not exceed the maximum period of imprisonment specified for the offence committed.