Prevention of Crimes Act 1871

14 As to care of children, of women convicted of crimes.

"Where any woman is convicted of a crime, and a previous conviction of a crime is proved against her, any children of such woman under the age of fourteen years who may he under her care and control at the time of her conviction for the last of such crimes, and who have no visible means of subsistence, or are without proper guardianship, shall be deemed to be children to whom in Great Britain the provisions of The Industrial Schools Act, 1866, and in Ireland the provisions' of The Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act, 1868 apply, and the court by whom such woman is convicted, or two justices or a magistrate, shall have the same power of ordering such children to be sent to a certified industrial school as is vested in two justices or a magistrate by the fourteenth section of The Industrial Schools Act, 1866, and by the eleventh section of The Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act, 1868, in respect of the children in the said sections described.