Section 4: Application of the Prisons Acts and the Prisoners Acts
The Kerala Borstal Schools Act, 1961State Act of Kerala · Act 31 of 1961
Subject to any alterations, adaptations and exceptions made by this Act and the rules made under it, the Prisons Act,1894 (Central Act 9 of 1894) and the Prisoners Act, 1900 (Central Act 3 of 1900) and the rules made thereunder, or, as the case may be, the Travancore-Cochin Prisons Act, 1950 (Act XVIII of 1950) and the Travancore-Cochin Prisoners Act, 1950 (Act XVII of 1950) and the rules made thereunder, shall apply in the case of every borstal school established under this Act as if it were a prison and the inmates prisoners.