Section 8 of The Prisoners Act, 1900 View Chapter 3

Delivery of persons sentenced to transportation by High Court


   Where any person is sentenced by the High Court in the exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction to transportation 1*** the Court shall cause him to be delivered for intermediate custody to the Superintendent, and the transportation 1*** of such person shall be deemed to commence from such delivery.

1The words “or penal servitude”, omitted by Act 17 of1949. s. 4.