§ (1) The Board, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, may establish and maintain institutions for defectives of criminal, dangerous, or violent propensities (in this Act referred to as State institutions), and for that purpose the Secretary of State may cause to be transferred to the Board the whole or any part of any building vested in the Prison Commissioners or otherwise under the control of the Secretary of State, or may, with the approval of the Treasury, authorise the Board under this Act either to acquire any land or erect or acquire any building.
§ (2) For the purposes of this Act the Board shall be deemed to be the managers of State institutions.
§ Lords Amendment: In Sub-section (1), leave out the. word "criminal" ["criminal, dangerous, or violent."]
§ Lords Amendment agreed to.