Power to release on licence

(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.