§ (1) Where a person is charged with any offence punishable with penal servitude or with imprisonment or where a child is brought before a Court under Section fifty-eight of the Children Act, 1908, and the Court is of opinion that the charge is proved or that the child is liable to be sent to an industrial school, the Court, if it appears to it that such person or child is a defective within the meaning of this Act may, without proceeding to convict or to make an order for committal to an. industrial school, as the case may be, adjourn the proceedings and report the case to the local authority concerned or to the procurator fiscal with a view to the presentation of a petition by them or him for a judicial order under this Act, provided that for the purposes of this Act a person shall be deemed to be a person found guilty of an offence where the Court is of opinion that the charge is proved.
§ Lords Amendment: In Sub-section (1), after the word "punishable" ["where a person is charged with any offence 2771 punishable"], insert the words "in the case of an adult."