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If it appears to the '[State] Government that any male person, Detention of less than twenty-one years of agc, who, having been sentenced to rigorous p"O1'ers confined in the imprisonment for an offence or having been committed to or conhed in lahore Borrtal prison for failing to give security for good behaviour, is at the time of the J,~I- commencement of this Act confined in the Lahore Borstal Jail, should for the reasons described in sub-section (1) of section 5 be detained, the ' [State] Government may direct that he be detained for a period not exceeding the residue ofhis sentence or of the period for which security was required, as the case maybe, provided that such order shall be subject as regards the period of detention to any order passed on appeal against or revision of the sentcnce or order of commitment or confincrnent in prison.