Kerala Borstal Schools Act, 1961

No: 31 Dated: Oct, 03 1961

Kerala Borstal Schools Act, 1961

(ACT 31 OF 1961)

    An act to make provision for the establishment and regulation of borstal schools for the detention and training of adolescent offenders.

    Preamble:- WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the establishment and regulation of borstal schools in the State of Kerala for the detention and training of adolescent offenders therein:

BE it enacted in the Twelfth Year of the Republic of India as follows

PART I

PRELIMINARY

1. Short title and application:- (1) This Act may be called the Kerala Borstal Schools Act, 1961.

(2) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, from time to time, apply the whole or any, of the provisions of this Act to adolescent offenders or any class thereof in any local are in the State, from such date as may be specified in the notification, and may cancel or modify such notification.

2. Definitions:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(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 118 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, (Central Act 5 of 1898), has failed to do so and who at the time of such conviction or failure to give security is not less than 16 nor more than 21 years of age;

(2) "borstal school" means a corrective institution wherein adolescent offenders, while detained in pursuance of this Act, are given such industrial or agricultural training and other instruction and are subjected to such disciplinary and moral influences as will conduce to their reformation and the prevention of crime;

(3) "Inspector-General" means the Inspector-General of Prisons and includes any officer appointed by the Government to exercise or perform all or any of the powers or duties of the Inspector-General under this Act;

(4) "Probation Officer" means an officer appointed to be a Probation Officer or recognised as such under section 13 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 (Central Act 20 of 1958);

(5) "State" means the State of Kerala .