State Act
Section 2. Power of Government to release by license on conditions imposed by it.
THE GOOD CONDUCT PRISONERS' PROBATIONAL RELEASE ACT, 1938
This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by The Assam Prisons Act, 2013; it may still apply to matters that began before then.
2. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, where a person is confined in prison under a sentence of imprisonment, and it appears to the Provincial Government from his antecedents or his conduct in the prison that he is likely to abstain from crime and lead a useful and industrious life, if he is released from prison, the Provincial Government may by license permit him to be released on condition (a) that he be placed under the supervision or authority of a servant of the Crown or a secular institution or of a person, or society professing the same religion as the prisoner, named in the license and willing to take charge of him, and (b) that he gives an undertaking in writing to conform to the terms of his license. Explanation.—The expression “sentence of imprisonment” in this section shall, in case of persons under 21 years of age, include imprisonment in default of payment of fine and imprisonment for failure to furnish security under Chapter VIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.