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Appointment of places for confinement of persons under sentence of transportation and removal thereto. - 1((1)] The 2[State Government] may appoint places within 3(the State] to which persons under sentence of transportation shall be sent; and the 2(State Government], or some officer duly authorised in this behalf by the 2[State Government], shall give orders for the removal of such persons to the places so appointed, except when sentence of transportation is passed on a person already undergoing transportation under a sentence previously passed for another offence. 4 [(2) In any case in which the 2(State Government] is competent under sub-section (1) to appoint places within the S[State] and to order the removal thereto of