It shall be the duty of the governor of a civil prison in the United Kingdom or the superintendent or other person in charge of a civil prison in a colony to receive any person duly committed to that prison by a magistrates’ court as illegally absent from the reserve forces and to detain him until in accordance with the directions of the court he is delivered into military or air-force custody, as the case may be.

Sub-paragraph (1) above 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, whether in the United Kingdom or in a colony, as it applies to the governor or superintendent of a prison.