Andhra Pradesh Borstal Schools Act, 1925

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    "title": "Andhra Pradesh Borstal Schools Act, 1925",
    "short_title": "Andhra Pradesh Borstal Schools Act, 1925",
    "act_number": "(Act No. 5 of 1925)",
    "act_year": 1925,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Andhra Pradesh Borstal Schools Act, 1925",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(1) \"Adolescent offender\" means any person who has been convicted of any offence punishable with imprisonment or who having been ordered to give security under section 106 or section 118 of the Code of Criminal Procedure has failed to do so and who at the time of such conviction or failure to give security is not less than 16 and not more than 21 years of age ;\n(2) \"Borstal school\" is a corrective institution wherein adolescent offenders, whilst detained in pursuance of this Act, are given such industrial training and other instruction and are subjected to such disciplinary and moral influences as will conduce to their reformation and the prevention of crime ;\n(3) \"Inspector-General\" shall mean the Inspector-General of Prisons and shall include any officer appointed by the State Government to perform all or any of the duties imposed by this Act on the Inspector-General ;\n(3-A) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Establishment of Borstal schools.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the appointment, powers and duties of officials in such schools ;\n(b) the [***] treatment, maintenance, education, industrial training and control of the inmates ;\n(c) the grant of permission to the inmates to absent themselves for short periods ;\n(d) visits to and communications with the inmates [***];\n(e) the temporary detention of adolescent offenders until arrangements can be made for sending them to Borstal schools ;\n(f) the powers and duties of probation officers under this Act;\n(g) the constitution, procedure, powers and duties of the Investigating Committee.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Application of the Prisons Act, 1894, and the Prisoners Act, 1900.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Courts empowered under this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(e) any Magistrate of the first class or any bench of Magistrates constituted under section 15 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 invested with the powers of a Magistrate of the first class specially empowered by the State Government in that behalf and may be exercised by such Courts whether the case comes before them originally, on appeal, or in revision .",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Procedure when Magistrate is not empowered to pass sentence under this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) [***];\n(b) [***] to the District Magistrate or Subdivisional Magistrate to whom he is subordinate.\nPART 2\nCommittal to Borstal Schools.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power of Court to pass sentence of detention in Borstal school.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "9. Limitation on powers conferred by Section 8.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Power of Inspector-General to transfer prisoners to Borstal school.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "10A",
            "title": "10A. Power of State Government to transfer offenders sentenced to transportation to Borstal schools.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Preliminary inquiry and finding as to age of adolescent offender.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Government to determine the Borstal school to which adolescent offender shall be sent.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Removal from one school to another.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "13A",
            "title": "13A. Reception of offenders from and transfer of offenders to, other States in India.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Transfer of incorrigibles, etc. to prisons.",
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            "content": "(a) such unexpired residue, or\n(b) the maximum period of imprisonment fixed for the offence or the failure to give security, as the case may be, or\n(c) the maximum period of imprisonment which the Court that tried him had authority to award under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 whichever is shortest.\nPART 3\nRelease on licence",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Power to release on licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) officer of the State Government ;\n(b) secular institution;\n(c) religious society ; or\n(d) responsible person; as may be approved by the Inspector-General and willing to take charge of the offender.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Form of licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Revocation of licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) direct the Inspector General to revoke the licence as provided in this sub-section,or\n(ii) themselves revoke then licence and commute the unexpired residue of the term of detention of the offender to a term of imprisonment as provided in Section 14.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Escape and failure of licence.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Absence under licence to be counted towards periods of detention.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "PART 3A.\nControl and management of Borstal Schools",
            "footnote": "",
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            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "19A",
            "title": "19A. Management of Borstal schools.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "19B",
            "title": "19B. Constitution, powers and duties of visiting Committees.",
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            "content": "(b) The non-official members shall hold office for a period of two years but shall be eligible for reappointment on the expiry of that period.\n(a) to visit the school either individually or collectively on such occasions as may be fixed by the rules made under this Act in that behalf for the purpose of ensuring that the provisions of this Act are duly given effect to;\n(b) to make such suggestions for the improvement of the training therein as are considered necessary and to report to the State Government or to the Inspector-General from time to time, any matter, which, in their opinion, should receive attention and annually on the progress of the school ;\n(c) to interview the inmates immediately after their arrival and to make suggestions, if any, as to the special training which each should receive ;\n(d) to consider cases of release on licence under sub-section (1) of section 15 placed before them by the Superintendent; and\n(e) to consider such action as may be necessary in regard to the inmates whose term of detention is about to expire.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "19C",
            "title": "19C. Classification of inmates.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) the penal grade,\n(2) the ordinary grade,\n(3) the star grade,\n(4) the special star grade.\n(2) The privileges of each grade shall be higher than those of the grade preceding, if any.\n(3) Every inmate shall, on reception in a Borstal school, be placed in the ordinary grade.\n(4) The Superintendent may promote or reduce any inmate from one grade to another in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (5), the rules made under this Act and the general instructions of the Visiting Committee.\n(5) Promotions and reductions shall be regulated by close personal observations of the inmates and shall depend specially on their general behaviour, amenability to discipline and attention to instructions both literary and industrial.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "19D",
            "title": "19D. Punishments for offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) Formal warning.\n(ii) Extra drill.\n(iii) Deprivation of any of the privileges of the grade.\n(iv) Reduction in grade.\n(v) Cuts on the hand by a rattan not exceeding six on each hand.\n(vi) [ omitted ].",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "19E",
            "title": "19E. Limitation of hours of work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "19F",
            "title": "19F. Investigating Committee to investigate into complaints against offenders discharged on probation, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) who is discharged on licence under section 15 and who is reported by the officer, institution, society or person under whose supervision he has been permitted to live to be of bad behaviour, or\n(b) who has committed breach of any of the conditions of the licence granted to him under section 15, to appear before the Investigating Committee within such time and at such place, as may be specified in the order.\nPART IV\nAppeal and Revision.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Appeal and revision.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "PART V\nMiscellaneous.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Minimum age-limit of adolescents in areas to which the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Children Act, 1920 has not been extended.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "21A. power of State Government to discharge inmates.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Removal of disqualification attaching to convictions for offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 18th October, 2019 [ap646]",
        "Act Number": "(Act No. 5 of 1925)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1925",
        "Short Title": "Andhra Pradesh Borstal Schools Act, 1925",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}