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Removal of lunatics and criminal lunatics.—(1) 1[Any lunatic may, in accordance with any general or special order of the [State Government] be removed from any Government asylum to any other asylum within the State, or to any other asylum in any other a[State], with the consent of the State Government of that State: Provided that no lunatic admitted into an asylum a reception order made on petition shall be removed in accordance with the provisions of this subsection until notice of such intended removal has been given to the petitioner. (2) The [State Government] may make such general or special order as [it] thinks fit directing the removal of any person for whose [detention] an order has been made under Sec. 466 or Sec. 471 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898) [or under Sec. 103-A of the Indian Army Act, 1911 (8 of 19 J) [from the place where he is for the time being 5[detained] to any asylum, jail or other place of safe custody [in the State,] or to any asylum, jail or other place of safety, in any other [State] with the consent of the [State] Government of the [State]. Escape and re-capture. 16