(1) Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, the State Government or any other person authorised in this behalf may at any time grant permission to a person detained in a Certified Institution to absent himself for short periods or may at any time release such person conditionally and issue him a licence therefor.
(2) Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, a licence issued under subsection (1) may at any time be revoked and thereupon the person released on such licence shall surrender and in case of default shall be arrested and sent to a Certified Institution for detention until the expiry of the term for which he had been ordered to be detained under section 10 or section 12.
(3) The period during which any person is absent from a Certified Institution by permission or by licence as aforesaid shall, for the purpose of computing his term of detention in a Certified Institution be deemed to be part of his deterntion.
Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions, the State Government may. if it is satisfied that a person detained in a Certified Institution will abstain from begging, direct at any time that he shall be released unconditionally and thereupon the term for which such person had been ordered to be detained in a Certified Institution shall be deemed to have expired.