imposing any penalty, the Court may, if it thinks fit, commit the offender to confinement in the custody of any prescribed authority for such time not exceeding twenty days, as it thinks fit, or for a time corresponding in duration to the time which, in the opinion of the Court, would be taken up in rendering the personal service required.
Any person committed to the custody of a prescribed authority, in pursuance of this authority, may be detained by that authority at any prescribed institution or place, and while so detained shall be subject to the regulations governing that institution or place, and to training and discipline as prescribed.
It shall not be necessary for the confinement to be continuous; but the person having the custody of the offender may (subject to the regulations) release him for such periods, and call upon him to return to custody at such times, as he thinks fit; to the intent that he may follow his occupation, and that the times and periods of his confinement may correspond, as nearly as practicable, with the times and periods which he ought to have occupied in rendering personal service.
Any person detained in any prescribed institution or place in pursuance of this section who escapes therefrom, or who being released from custody fails to return thereto, may be arrested without warrant by any prescribed person, and taken back to the institution or place, and may on the application of any prescribed officer be ordered by any Court of summary jurisdiction to be detained for such additional period not exceeding twenty days as the Court thinks fit to order.
Every person who, without lawful excuse, evades or
