Section 21
SEC. 21. Section three of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and thirty-eight is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 3. Minor prisoners now confined in Bilibid Prison, or in any provincial jail who, if males, were under the age of sixteen at the time of commitment, or, if females, under the age of eighteen at the time of commitment, may be transferred by executive order of the Governor-General fur the period of the unexpired portion of their sentences to any of the institutions mentioned in section one hereof: Provided, however, That the Governor-General prior to making transfer of any minor from Bilibid Prison or any provincial prison or jail to any such institution shall take into consideration the religion of the minor and that of his parents or next of kin and shall not transfer such minor without the approval of the parents or next of kin or any private institution not under the control and supervision of the religions sect or denomination to which such minor and his parents or next of kin belong: And provided further, That any minor transferred as prescribed in this section to any of the institutions mentioned in section one hereof may be retransferred by executive order of the Governor-General to the prison or jail from which lie was transferred, there to be confined for the unexpired portion of his sentence. All reasonable and actual expenses incurred in the transportation, guarding, and subsistence of such minor prisoners shall be borne by the province in which said minor prisoners were sentenced, if they be provincial prisoners, or by the appropriation for the Bureau of Prisons, if they be Insular prisoners."