ABI Act 16

Section 16 · Suspension and revocation of licence

(1)

Subject to any general or special directions of the State Government, a licence granted under Section 13 may be suspended for a period not exceeding three months by the Superintendent or the Director or be revoked by the Director in consultation with the visiting committee. For the purposes of such revocation, the Director of the visiting committee may make such enquiry as he or it deems necessary, either through a probation officer or otherwise.

(2)

If an offender removes himself from the supervision of the institution, society or person under which he was by licence permitted to live, his licence shall be deemed to have been revoked from the date on which he was so removed himself.

(3)

When any licence is suspended or revoked or deemed to be revoked, the offender shall forthwith return to the Borstal Institution, and, if he fails to do so, he may be arrested without warrant by any Police Officer not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector and committed to the Institution.

(4)

On the suspension or revocation of a licence,e the period beginning from the date on which the licence is suspended or revoked or deemed to be revoked till the date on which the offender returns to the Institution or is arrested, whichever is earlier, shall be excluded in computing the period for which he has been ordered to be detained in a Borstal Institution.

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