Section 5 — Power to regulate place and conditions of detention.

5. Power to regulate place and conditions of detention.—Every person in respect of whom a 

detention order has been made shall be liable— 

(a) to be detained in such place and under such conditions, including conditions as to 

maintenance, discipline and punishment for breaches of discipline, as the appropriate Government 

may, by general or special order, specify; and 

(b) to be removed from one place of detention to another place of detention, whether within the 

same State or in another State, by order of the appropriate Government: 

Provided that no order shall be made by a State Government under clause (b) for the removal of a 

person from one State to another State except with the consent of the Government of that other State.