Discharge and transfer

(1) The Government may, at any time, order a child to be discharged from a children’s home, certified school or fit person institution, either absolutely or on such conditions as the Government may approve: Provided that adequate after-care service is provided for such child wherever possible. (2) The Government may, in the interests of discipline or for any special reasons, order– (a) a juvenile offender detained in a certified school, who has completed the age of sixteen years in the case of a boy or eighteen years in the case of a girl; (b) any child over the age of sixteen years in the case of a boy and eighteen years in the case of a girl released on licence, who has committed a breach of the conditions of licence and who it is not advisable to send back to the same home, school or institution from which he has been released to be transferred to a Borstal School established under the law relating to Borstal Schools for the time being in force in the State: Provided that the total period of detention of the child, or juvenile offender shall not be increased by the transfer. (3) Upon the transfer of a child or juvenile offender to a Borstal School under sub-section (2), the provisions of the law relating to Borstal Schools for the time being in force in the State shall apply to such child or offender as if he had been originally ordered to be detained in a Borstal School under that law. (4) The Government may, at any time in its discretion, discharge a child from the care of any person to whose care he is committed under this Act either absolutely or on such conditions as the Government may approve, provided that adequate after-care service is provided for such child whenever possible.