PJM 829Chapter XXIX · Female Prisoners and Children

Section 829 · Disposal of female convicts not provided for in the preceding rule

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(1)

Every adult female convict who is an Indian and is not liable to be transferred under the provisions of the preceding rule, shall ordinarily be detained in the jail to which she is, in the first instance, committed : Provided that such jail possesses suitable and adequate accommodation for the purpose and subject to the limits thereof.

(2)

When the number of adult female convicts, who are Indians, confined in any jail is in excess of the accommodation available for such convicts in such jail, the number of such convicts in excess of such accommodation shall, without regard to the length of the term of the sentences to be undergone by them, respectively, ordinarily, be transferred to the Lahore Female Jail.

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