Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Subject to any general or specific direction of the State Government, the Director of Borstal Institutions may, on the recommendation of the visiting committee, at any time after the expiration of ·six months, or in the case of women, three months from the commencement of the term of detention, if he is satisSed that the inmate is likely to abstain from crime and to lead a useful and industrious life, by licence permit him to be discharged from the Borstal Institution on condition that he be placed under the supervision or aulhority of such Government Officer, such secular institution or such person or religious society belonging to the same religion as that of the inmate named in the licence who may be willing to take charge or him. (2) The Director of Borstal Institutions may, subject to such conditions as the State Government may prescribe, discharge any inmate who had been previously granted a licence but whose licence was subsequently revoked under section 16 and grant him a fresh written licence and in such case foe provisions of this Act shall apply as if such fresh licence had been granted under sub-section ( i ). (3) A licence under this section shall be in force until the expiry of the t~rm for which the offender was ordered to be detained in a Borstal Institution, unless sooner revoked. ( 4) The period during which an offender is absent from a Borstal Institution during the con- tinuance of a licence granted to him under this section shall, for the purposes of computing h is term of rletention in such Insti&ution, be deemed to be part of that detention. Absence un·