Government to determine the borstal school to which adolescent offender shall be sent.

Every adolescent offender ordered by a court to be sent to a borstal school shall be sent to such borstal school as the Government may, by general or special order, appoint for the reception of adolescent offenders so dealt with by such court:

Provided that, if accommodation in a borstal school is not immediately available for such adolescent offender, he may be detained in a special ward or such other suitable part of a prison as the Government may direct, until he can be sent to a borstal school. The period of detention so undergone shall be treated as detention in a borstal school.