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Since repealed by the Madras Repealing and Amending Act, 1951 (Madras Act XIV of 1951). Transfer of incorrigible etc., to prisons. 10 [Act No.V of 1926] (c) the maximum period of imprisonment which the Court that tried him had authority to award under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, whichever is shortest. PART III. RELEASE ON LICENCE. 29[15. (1) Subject to the prescribed conditions the Inspector-General may, on the recommendation of the Visiting Committee, at any time, after the expiration of six months from the commencement of the detention of an offender in a Borstal School, if he is satisfied that there is a reasonable probability that the offender will abstain from crime and lead a useful and industrious life, discharge him from the Borstal school and grant him a written licence permitting him to live under the supervision and authority of such,- (a) officer of the State Government; (b) secular institution; (c) religious society; or (d) responsible person; as may be approved by the Inspector-General and willing to take charge of the offender. (2) The Inspector-General may, subject to the prescribed conditions, discharge any offender who had been previously granted a licence but whose licence was subsequently revoked under section 17 and grant him a fresh written licence and in such case the provisions of this