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Section 77s 
1.  The measure of detention in an institution for juveniles may only be imposed if 
 
a.  the offence is a serious offence for which pre-trial detention may be imposed;  
b.  the safety of others or the general safety of persons or property requires imposition of the 
measure, and 
c.  the measure is in the interest of the best possible development of the defendant in the future. 
 
2.   The court shall impose the measure only after a reasoned, dated and signed opinion issued by no 
fewer than two behavioural experts of different disciplines has been submitted to it. Such opinion 
shall be given jointly by the behavioural experts or by each of them separately. Where the date of 
this opinion precedes the commencement of the trial by more than one year, the court may only 

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rely upon it with the consent of the Public Prosecution Service and of the defendant.  
3.  The measure may also be imposed if the defendant is not criminally liable because of the fact that 
he cannot be held responsible for committing a criminal offence by reason of mental disease or 
defect. If the defendant suffered from mental disease or defect at the time of the offence, then, in 
the application of subsection (1), one of the behavioural experts must be a psychiatrist.  
4.  Subsection (2) shall not apply if the person in question refuses to cooperate with the examination 
required for submission of the opinion. Where possible, the behavioural experts shall prepare, 
either jointly or each of them separately, an opinion or a report on the reason for the refusal. The 
court shall make every effort to secure the submission of another opinion or report advising it on 
the desirability or necessity of imposition of the measure, with which the person in question is 
willing to cooperate.  
5.  If the measure is imposed, Our Minister of Justice shall charge an institution, as referred to in 
section 1(b) of the Correctional Institutions for Young Offenders (Framework) Act, with the 
enforcement or shall have the convicted offender detained in another facility. 
6.  The measure shall be in effect for three years. The measure shall be conditionally terminated after 
two years, unless the measure is extended in the manner referred to in section 77t. The term shall 
start to run after the judgment has become final. The measure shall lapse when a judgment, in 
which the measure is again imposed on the person in question, becomes final.  
7.  The term of the measure shall not run: 
a.  during the period that the convicted offender is deprived of his liberty by law for other reasons 
and when he is absent without leave during such period of deprivation of liberty; 
b.  during the period that the convicted offender is absent without leave from the place designated 
for enforcement of the measure for more than one week;  
c.  when the measure is conditionally terminated as referred to in subsection (6) and section 
77t(2). 
 
8.  Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (7), Our Minister may at all times, after having 
consulted the Child Protection Board, conditionally or unconditionally terminate the measure.  
Section 77s bis [Repealed as of 01-09-1995]