(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 an 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 permitting him to live under the supervision and authority of such,-
(a) officer of the State 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 17 and grant him a fresh written licence and in such case the provisions of this
29. Substituted by the Andhra Pradesh Extension of Laws Act, 1958 (Act XXIII of 1958).
Power to release on licence.
Central Act 5 of 1898.
[Act No.V of 1926] 11 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 expiration of the term for which the offender was ordered to be detailed in a Borstal school, unless sooner revoked or forfeited.]
16. Every licence granted under section 15 shall be in such form and shall contain such conditions as the State Government may by rules direct.