Section 154: Confinement in prison

1) Upon receipt of an order referred to in Section 151 or upon the person held to be an offender being arrested by a police officer, the concerned prison officer shall confine the offender in prison in accordance with law.

Provided that if a child below eighteen years of age is convicted of an offence, the child shall be held in a separate children reform home or similar other home as provided by the Government of Nepal.

2) While confining an offender in prison pursuant to sub-section (1), the prison office shall prepare and update the record containing information, inter alia, of when the offender has been confined in prison or arrested and when the service of the sentence of imprisonment will be completed.