399. Confinement of youthful offenders in reformatories.(1) When any person under the age of
fifteen years is sentenced by any Criminal Court to imprisonment for any offence, the Court may direct that
such person, instead of being imprisoned in a criminal jail, shall be confined in any reformatory established
by the 1[Provincial Government] as a fit place for confinement, in which there are means of suitable
discipline and of training in some branch of useful industry or which is kept by a person willing to obey such
rules as the 1[Provincial Government] prescribes with regard to the discipline and training of persons
confined therein.
(2) All persons confined under this section shall be subject to the rules so prescribed.
(3) This section shall not apply to any place in which the Reformatory Schools Act, 1897 (VIII of 1897),
is for the time being in force.
400. Return of warrant on execution of sentence. When a sentence has been fully executed, the
officer executing it shall return the warrant to the Court from which it issued, with an endorsement under his
hand certifying the manner in which the sentence has been executed.
CHAPTER XXIX
OF SUSPENSIONS, REMISSIONS AND COMMUTATIONS OF SENTENCES
401. Power to suspend or remit sentences.(1) When any person has been sentenced to punishment
for an offence, 3* * * the 1[Provincial Government] may at any time without conditions or upon any
conditions which the person sentenced accepts, suspend the execution of his sentence or remit the whole or
any part of the punishment to which he has been sentenced 4[:].
2
4''[Provided that the Provincial Government shall have no power to suspend or remit any sentence
awarded to an offender under chapter XVI of the Pakistan Penal code if an offence has been committed by
him in the name or on the pretext of karo kari, siyah kari or similar other customs or practices''].
(2) Whenever an application is made to 3* * * the 1[Provincial Government] for the suspension or
remission of a sentence, 3* * * the 1[Provincial Government] , 5* * *, may require the presiding Judge of
the Court before or by which the conviction was had or confirmed to state his opinion as to whether the
application should be granted or refused, together with his reasons for such opinion 6[and also to forward
with the statement of such opinion a certified copy of the record of the trial or of such record thereof as
exists].
1 Subs. by A.O., 1937, for “L.G.”.
2 As regards conditional release of good conduct prisoners in the Punjab, see the Good Conduct Prisoners Probational Release Act, 1926 (Punjab Act 10 of 1926). The Chief Commissioner of
Karachi shall exercise the powers conferred as a Provincial Government under this section, subject to certain conditions, see Gaz. of P, 1953, Ext., P. 861.
3 The words “the G.G in C. or” rep. by A.O, 1937.
4 Subs. and Ins. by Act I of 2005, s.15.
5 The words “as the case may be" rep. ibid.
6 Ins. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amdt.) Act, 1923 (18 of 1923), section 107.
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