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1) When any person is 30[detained) under the provisions of section 466-orsection 471 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898-31[or under the provision of section 103Aof the 3Indian Army Act, 1911], the Inspector-General of Prisons, if such person is 30[detained] in a jail or the visitors of the asylum or any two of them, if he is 30[detained] in an asylum, may visit him in order to ascertain his state of mind ; and he shall be visited once at least in every six months by such Inspector-General or by two of such visitors as aforesaid; and such Inspector-General or visitors shall make a special report as to the state of mind of such person to the authority under whose order he is30[detained].
(2) The State Government may empower the officer in charge of the jail in which such person may be 30[detained] to discharge all or any of the functions of the Inspector-General under sub-section (1)