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    "id": 13691,
    "slug": "good-conduct-prisoners-probational-release-act-1938-1938",
    "title": "Good Conduct Prisoners' Probational Release Act, 1938",
    "short_title": "Good Conduct Prisoners' Probational Release Act, 1938",
    "act_number": "Assam Act 2 of 1938",
    "act_year": 1938,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Good Conduct Prisoners' Probational Release Act, 1938",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Power of Government to release by licence on conditions imposed by it.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(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\n(b) that the gives an undertaking in writing to conform to the terms of his licence.",
            "footnote": "",
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            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Period for which licence is to be in force.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Period of release to be reckoned as imprisonment for computing period of sentence served.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Form of licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Power to revoke licence.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) for the form and conditions of licence on which prisoners may be released ;\n(2) for defining the powers and duties of servants of the Government, societies or persons under whose authority or supervision conditionally released prisoners may be kept;\n(3) for defining the classes of offenders who may conditionally released, and the periods of imprisonment after which they may be so released ;\n(4) generally for carrying into effect all the purposes of this Act.\nAdapted by the State of Meghalaya",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 12th February, 2020 [ass280]",
        "Act Number": "Assam Act 2 of 1938",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1938",
        "Short Title": "Good Conduct Prisoners' Probational Release Act, 1938",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}