ABI Act 13

Section 13 · Power to release on licence

(1)

Subject to any general or specific direction of the State Government, the Director of Borstal Institution may, on the recommendation of the visiting committee, at any time after the expiration of the six months, or in the case of women, three months from the commencement of the term of detention, if he is satisfied that the inmate is likely to abstain from crime and lead a useful and industrious life, by licence permit him to be discharged form the Borstal Institution on condition that he be placed under the supervision or authority of such Government Officer, such secular institution or other person or religious society belonging to same religion of that of the inmate named in the licence who may be willing to take charge of him.

(2)

The Director of Borstal Institutions may, subject to such conditions as the State Government may prescribe, discharge any inmate who had been previously granted a licence, but whose licence was subsequently revoked under Section 16 and grant him a fresh written and in such case the provisions of this Act shall apply as if such fresh licence has 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 Institution, unless sooner revoked.

(4)

The period during which an offender is absent from a Borstal Institution, during the continuance of a licence granted to him under this section shall, for the purpose of computing his term of detention in such institution, be deemed to be part of that detention.

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