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Subject to any gcneral or special directions of the '[State] On license- Government the visiting committee with the sanction of- the Director of Borstnl lnstiktions may at any time after the expiration of one-third of the period of detention, or of two years, whichever is shorter, if satisfied that the inmate is likely to abstain from crime and lead a useful and industrious life, by license permit him to be discharged from the Borstal Institution on condition that he be placed under the supervision or authority of any ?[Government officcrj or (secular) institution or person or religious society (professing the same religion as the inmate ) named in the license who may be wilIing to take charge of him. A license granted under this section shall be in force until the term for which the inmate was ordered to be detained has expired unless sooner suspended, revoked or forfeited. Absence under