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Delivery of persons sentenced to 16[imprisonment for life] by High Court. – Where any person is sentenced by the High Court in the exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction to imprisonment for life 17[***], the Court shall cause him to be delivered for intermediate custody to the Superintendent, and the imprisonment for life of such person shall be deemed to commence from such delivery. 14 Vide Bombay Act 7 of 1949, Sec. 4 (w.e.f. 11th April, 1949) read with Act 15 of 1959, Secs. 2 and 3; Maharashtra A.L.O. (Am.), 1961. 15 Madras Act 11 of 1958, Sec. 3 (w.e.f. 4th July, 1958). 16 Vide Sec. 53-A, Indian Penal Code. 17 The words “penal servitude” omitted by Sec. 4 of the Criminal Law (Removal of Racial Discrimination) Act, 1949 (7 of 1949) (w.e.f. 6th April, 1949). State Amendments Maharashtra In its application to the State of Maharashtra, in Section 8, – (a) for the words “criminal jurisdiction”, substitute the words “or appellate criminal jurisdiction or by the Court of Session for Greater Bombay”; (b) for “the Court”, substitute the words “the High Court or the Sessions Court, as the case may be”; (c) in the marginal note after the words “High Court”, add the words “or the Sessions Court”.18 Tamil Nadu In its application to the State of Madras Sec. 8 shall be omitted.19