Section 245: Duties of superintendents 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 a person duly committed to that prison by a magistrate's court as illegally absent from the Armed Forces and to detain him until in accordance with the directions of the court he is delivered into service custody.
(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall apply to the person who has charge of a 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.