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(1) Where it apFears to the State Govern• ment that an inmate of a Borstal Institution is of unsound mind, the State Government may order him to be removed to a mental hospital or other place of safe custody within the State, to he kept there and treated during the remainder of the term for which he has bten ordered to be detained, and if on the ex- piration of that term it is certified by a medical officer that it is necessary for the safety: of the inmate or others that he should be further detained under medical care or treatment, then he shall be so detained until he is discharged according to law. (2) Where it appears to the St<\te Government that an inmate so kept and treated has become of sound mind, the State Government shall, by a warrant directed to the person having charge of the inmate, remand him, if still liable to be detained, to the Borstal Institution from which he was re- moved, or to anoth<::r Borstal Institution within the State, or order him to be discharged on a certifi- cate or otherwise, or, if he is no longer liable to be detained order him to be discharged. (3) The provisions of section 31 of the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912 shall apply to every person IV tf 1912 confined in a mental hospital under sub-sec- tion {l) after the expiration of tJie term for which he was ordered to be detained and the time during which an inmate is confined in a mental hospital under that sub-section shall be reckoned as part of the term of detention which he may have been ordered to undergo. ( ~ ) fn any case in which the State Govern!! ment 1s competent under sub-section (I) to . ordet the removal of an inmate to a mental hosp1tal or other place of safe custod:y within the State, the ~ 142 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, fEB~ 10, 1969 -------·-··- State Government may order his ·removal to any such hospital or place within any other State by agreement with the Government of such other State and the provisions of this section respecting the .custody, detention, remano and . discharge of an inmate removelil under sub-section (I) shall, so far as they can be made ::.pplicable, apply to an inmate removed under this sub-section • • Power to