Good Conduct Prisoners' Probational Release Act, 1938

Q: What does Section 2 of Good Conduct Prisoners' Probational Release Act, 1938 say?

(a) that he be placed under the supervision or authority of a servant of the Government or a secular institution or of a person, or society professing the same religion as the prisoner, named in the licence and wiling to take charge of him ; and (b) that the gives an undertaking in writing to conform to the terms of his licence.

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4. Period of release to be reckoned as imprisonment for computing period of sentence served.

Section 4

5. Form of licence.

Section 5

6. Power to revoke licence.

Section 6

7. Power to make rules.

Section 7

good-conduct-prisoners-probational-release-act-1938-1938.json • 7 Sections • Assam

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