Provided that the period of detention so ordered shall not exceed the maximum period of imprisonment to which the child could have been sentenced for the offence committed.

Proceeding under Chapter VIII of the Criminal Procedure Code not competent against child Proceeding under Chapter VIII of the Criminal Procedure Code not competent against child.—Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, Svt. 1989, no proceeding shall be instituted and no order shall be passed against a child under Chapter VIII of the said Code.