(1) This Act may be called the Bombay Repatriated Prisoners Act, 1949.
(2) It extends to the whole of the Province of Bombay.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Provincial Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf.
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context-
(a) “prison” includes a central, district or subsidiary jail or judicial lock-up, and every place which is used as a place of detention for persons who have been arrested or detained under any law for the time being in force ;
(b) “prisoner” includes every person who is detained in a prison by order of a competent authority not being a Civil Court ;
(c) “repatriated prisoner” means a prisoner who being in custody in a prison or other place of detention in Pakistan has been conveyed and delivered by a duly authorised officer to any officer of this Province.
3. The Provincial Government may, by general or special order, specify the place at which and, either by name or designation, the officer by whom, custody of a repatriated prisoner, together with any article or records which may have been sent along with him, shall be received and the prison to which he is to be removed, and the officer in charge of such prison shall thereupon receive such prisoner and any article or records which may be produced along with him.
4. The officer in charge of the prison shall detain in custody a repatriated prisoner who, before his repatriation, was a convict undergoing a sentence in a prison-
(a) according to the tenor of the warrant, writ or order of commitment to prison, it any, relating to such prisoner, or
(b) failing such warrant, writ or order as aforesaid in accordance with the order of the Provincial Government.