Bare Act
The Tamil Nadu Borstal Schools Act, 1925
Education192029 sections
- 1. Short title
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Establishment of Borstal schools
- 4. Rules
- 5. Application of the Prisons Act, 1894, and Prisoners Act, 1900
- 6. Courts empowered under this Act
- 7. Procedure when Magistrate is not empowered to pass sentence under this Act
- 8. Power of Court to pass sentence of detention in Borstal school
- 8A. Sentence on offender already under detention in Borstal School
- 9. Limitation on powers conferred by section 8
- 10. Power of Inspector-General to transfer prisoners to Borstal school
- 10A. The provisions of this Act shall thereupon apply to such person as if he had been originally sentenced to detcntion in a Borstal school.
- 11. An ord3r may b= made under this section notwithstanding that the sentence of transportation has been sub;equentiy commuted into a sentence of imprisonment.
- 12. Government to determine the Borstal school to which adolescent offender shall be sent
- 13. The pzriod of detention so undergone shall bs treated as detention in a Bortsal school.
- 13A. Reception of offenders from, and transfer of offenders to, other States in India
- 14. Power of State Government to commute sentence of incorrigibles
- 15. Power to release on licence
- 16. Form of licence
- 17. Revocation of licence
- 18. Penalty for escape
- 19. Absence under licence to be counted towards period of detention
- 19A. Management of Borstal schools
- 19B. Constitution, powers and duties of Visiting Committees
- 19C. Classification of inmates
- 19D. Punishments for offences
- 19E. Limitation of hours of work
- 19F. Limitation of hours of work
- 20. Provided that extra drill awarded as a punishment under sub-section (1) of section 19-D shall not be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to be work.
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