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State Government to determine the Borstal School in which a person shall be detained and may order removal.—(1) Every young offender ordered to be detained in a Borstal School shall be detained in such Borstal School as the State Government may, by general or special order, appoint for the reception of persons so ordered to be detained: Provided that, if accommodation in a Borstal School is not immediately available for such offender, he may be detained in a special ward or such other suitable part of a prison, as the State Government may direct, until he can be sent to a Borstal School and the period of detention so undergone shall be treated as detention in a Borstal School. (2) The State Government may order the removal of any young offender from any one Borstal School to another Borstal School established under this Act, or to a Borstal School in any other State in India, provided that the whole period of his detention in a Borstal School shall not be increased by such removal. 7