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Whenever it appears to the Superintendent of a Jail that any Power of male person less than twenty-one years of age sentenced to transportation Superintendent or rigorous imprisonment for an offence or committed to or confined in present prison for failing to give security for good behaviour should ior the pnroner reasons dcscnbed in sub-seclion (1) of section 5 be detained, he shall h, 21 years cause such prisoner to be produced before t he District Magisbatein whose of age before jurisdiction thc Jail is situated, and if the District Magistrzte after making District such enquiry as he may deem proper or as may be prescribed is satisfied lor de~ention in a that the prisoner should for the reasons dcscnbed in the said sub-section Borstal be detained, he may order the prisoner to be ren~oved from jail and ~ ~ ~ ~ detained for a period equal to the unexpired term of the lransportation or imprisonment to which he rv3s sentenced, or of the period for which security was required from him, as the case may be.