§ (1) The Secretary for Scotland may grant authority to establish and maintain an institution or institutions for defectives of criminal, dangerous, or violent propensities (in this Act referred to as State institutions), and for that purpose may appropriate the whole or any part of any building vested in the Prison Commissioners for Scotland (hereinafter referred to as the Prison Commissioners) or may, with the approval of the Treasury, authorise the Prison Commissioners to acquire any land or to erect or acquire any building.
§ Lords Amendment: In Sub-section (1), leave out the word "criminal" ["criminal, dangerous, or violent propensities"].