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expiration of three years from the date of his sentence, or the expiration of six months from the date of his being taken into custody under the order, whichever is the later, and, if at large, shall be deemed to be unlawfully at large:
Provided that—
- (a) any such order shall, at the expiration of four years from the date of the sentence, cease to have effect unless the person to whom it relates is then in custody thereunder; and
- (b) the Prison Commissioners may at any time release a person who is detained in a Borstal institution under this subsection; and the preceding provisions of this section shall apply in the case of a person so released as they apply in the case of a person released under subsection (2) thereof.
(5) If any person while under supervision, or after his recall to a Borstal institution, as aforesaid, is sentenced by a court in any part of Great Britain to corrective training or Borstal training, his original sentence of Borstal training shall cease to have effect.
(6) The Prison Commissioners in exercising their functions under this section shall consider any report made to them by a board of visitors on the advisability of releasing a person from a Borstal institution.
Temporary detention of persons liable to detention in a Borstal institution. 46. A person who is required to be taken to a Borstal institution may, until arrangements can be made for taking him there, be temporarily detained elsewhere.
Rules for the management of prisons and other institutions
Rules for the management of prisons, remand centres, detention centres and Borstal institutions. 47.—(1) The Secretary of State may make rules for the regulation and management of prisons, remand centres, detention centres and Borstal institutions respectively, and for the classification, treatment, employment, discipline and control of persons required to be detained therein.
(2) Rules made under this section shall make provision for ensuring that a person who is charged with any offence under the rules shall be given a proper opportunity of presenting his case.
(3) Rules made under this section may provide for the training of particular classes of persons and their allocation for that purpose to any prison or other institution in which they may lawfully be detained.
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