Duties of superintendent of prisons and others to receive deserters and absentees

(1) It shall be the duty of the superintendent or other person in charge of a civil prison to receive any person duly committed to that prison by a magistrates’ court as illegally absent and to detain him until in accordance with the directions of the court he is delivered into military custody. (2) Sub-section (1) shall apply to the person having charge of any police station or other place (not being a prison) provided for the confinement of persons in custody, as it applies to the superintendent of a prison.