Section Text
(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 a young 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 in the prescribed form and on the prescribed conditions, permitting him to live under the supervision and authority of such,--
(a) officer of 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 16 and grant him a fresh written licence and in such case, the provisions of this Act shall apply as if such fresh licence had been granted under sub-section (1).
(3) A licence under this section shall be in force until the expiry of the term for which the offender was ordered to be detained in a Borstal School unless sooner revoked.
(4) The period during which an offender is absent from a Borstal School during the continuance of a licence granted to him under this section shall, for the purpose of computing his term of detention in such school, be deemed to be part of that detention.