The Prisons Act 1894

THE PRISONS ACT, 1894

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
preliminary
sections

1.    Title, extent and commencement. 3.    [Repealed].
3.    Definitions.                                  

CHAPTER II
maintenance and offichrs of prisons

4.    Accommodation for prisoners.
5.   Inspector-General.
6.   Officers of Prisons.
7.   Temporary accommodation for prisoners.

CHAPTER III
DUTIES OF officers
Generally

8.    Control and duties of officers of prisons
9.    Officers not to have business dealings with prisoners.
10.    Officers not to be interested in prison-contracts.
Superintendent

11.    Superintendent.
12.    Records to be kept by Superintendent.

sections
Medical Officer

13.        Duties of Medical Officer.
14.        Medical Officer to report in certain cases.
15.        Report on death of prisoner
Jailer
16.    Jailer
17.    Jailer to give notice of death of prisoner.
18.    Responsibility of Jailer
19.   Jailer to be present at night.
20.   Powers of Deputy and Assistant Jailers.

Subordinate Officers

21.    Duties of gate-keeper.
22.    Subordinate officers not to be absent without leave.
23.    Convict Officers.
CHAPTER IV

admission, removal and discharge of prisoners
24.    Prisoners to be examined on admission.
25.    Effects of Prisoners.
26.    Removal and discharge of prisoners.

CHAPTER V
discipline of prisoners
27.    Separation of Prisoners.
28.    Association and segregation of prisoners.
29.    Solitary confinement
30.    Prisoners under sentence of death,
sections
CHAPTER VI

food,  clothing  and bedding of civil  and unconvicted criminal prisoners
31.    Maintenance of certain prisoners from private sources.
32.    Restriction on transfer of food and clothing between certain prisoners.
33.    Supply of clothing  and  bedding  to  civil   and unconvicted criminal prisoners.

CHAPTER VII
employment of prisoners

34.    Employment of Civil Prisoners
35.    Employment of Criminal Prisoners.
36.    Employment of Criminal   prisoners   sentenced   to   simple imprisonment.

CHAPTER VII1
health of prisoneks.

37.    Sick prisoners
38.    Record of directions of Medical Officers.
39.    Hospital
CHAPTER IX
Visits to prisoners

40.    Visits lo Civil and unconvinced Criminal Prisoners.
41.    Search of visitors.
CHAPTER X
offkncfs in relation to prisons

42.  Penalty for introduction or removal of prohibited  articles in to or from prison and communication   with   prisoners.
sections

43.    Power to arrest for offence under section 42.
44.    Publication of penalties.

CHAPTER XI
prison-offences
45.       Prison-Offences.
46.       Punishment of such offences.
47.       Plurality of punishments under section 46.
48.       Award of punishments under sections 46 and 47.
49.       Punishments to be in accordance with foregoing sections,
50.       Medical Officer to certify to fitness of prisoner for punishment.
51.       Entries in punishment-book.
52.       Procedure on committal of heinous offence.
53.       Whipping.
54.       Offences by prison subordinates.

CHAPTER XI
miscellaneous

55.    Extramural custody, control and employment of prisoners.
56.    Confinement  in  irons.
57.    Confinement of prisoners under sentence of transportation in irons.
58.    Prisoners not to be ironed by Jailer except under necessity.
59.    Power to make rules.
60.    [Repealed].
61.    Exhibition of copies of rules.
62.    Exercise of powers of Superintendent and Medical Officer.

THE SCHEDULE- ([Repealed].
THE PRISONS ACT, 1894
(Act No. IX of 1894).
[22nd March,   1894]
An Act to amend the Law relating to Prisons .
whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to  prisons iff 2fPakistan], and to provide rules for the regulation of such prisons;
It  is hereby enacted as follows:
CHAPTER-1
preliminary

1. This Act may be called the Prisons Act, 1894.

3[(£) It extends to the whole of Pakistan].
(3) It shall come into force on the first day of July, 1894.
(4) Nothing in this Act shall apply to civil jails in 4[Sindand the 5[Karachi Division], and those jails shall continue to be admi­nistered under the provisions of sections 9 to 16 (both inclusive) of 6Bombay Act IT of 1874, as amended by subsequent enactments.

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2.    [Repeal].    Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1938 (/ of 1938) j. 2 and Schedule.

3.    In this Act—

(1) "prison" means any jail or place used permanently or tempo­rarily under the general or special orders of a '[Provincial Government] for the detention of prisoners, and includes all lands and buildings appurtenant thereto but does not include-

(a)   any place for the confinement of prisoners who are exclu­sively in the custody of the police;

(b)   any place specially appointed by the J[Provincial Govern­ment] under section 541 of the 2Code of Criminal Proce­dure. 1882;or

(c)   any place which has bee \\ declared by the i [Provincial Govern­ment], by general or Special order, to be a subsidiary jail.
(2) "criminal prisoner" means any   prisoner duly   committed to custody under the writ, warrant or order of any Court  or authority exercising criminal  jurisdiction,  or by order of  a Court-martial:
(3) "convicted criminal  prisoner" means any criminal prisoner under sentence of a   Court   or   Court-martial, and   includes a person detained in prison under the provisions   of Chapter VIII of the 2Code of Criminal Procedure, 18,82, or under the
Prisoners Act, 1871:
(4) "civil prisoner" means any  prisoner   who is not a criminal prisoner:
(5) "remission system" means the rules for the time being in force regulating the award of marks to, and the consequent shorten­ing of sentences of, prisoners in jails:
(6) "history-ticket" means the ticket exhibiting such information as is required in respect of each prisoner by this Act or the rules thereunder;

(7) and (7-A) •*(*****].

4.      Clause (7-A) was inserted by W. P. Act XL1 of 1958:; however, this clause and clause {7) deleted by W P. Act XXV of 1962.
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(8) "medical subordinate" means an Assistant Surgeon, Apothe­cary or qualified Hospital Assistant: and
(9) "prohibited article" means an article the introduction or re­moval of which into or out of a prison is prohibited by any rule under this Act.
CHAPTER II
maintenance and officers or prisons

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or whenever from the outbreak of epidemic disease within any prison, or for any other reason, it is desirable to provide for the temporary shelter and safe custody of any prisoners.

Provision shall be made, by such officer and in such manner as the '[Provincial Government] may direct, for the shelter and safe custody in temporary prisons of so many of the prisoners as cannot be conveniently or safely kept in the prison.

4.    Subs., for "Inspector General." by W.P. Ord. XXV of 1962. :uid (hen bv N. W.F.I'. Act No. VI of 1977.
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CH AFTER HI
duties of officers
Generally

(2) Subject to such general or special directions as may be given by the Provincial Government], the Superintendent of a prison other than a central prison or a prison situated in presidency town shall obey all orders not inconsistent with this Act or any rule thereunder which may be given respecting the prison by the District
Magistrate, and shall report '[through the Deputy Inspector-Ge Si to the '(Inspector General of Prison] all such orders and the action taken thereon.

2.      Subs. by W.P. Ord. XXV of 1962, for “Inspector General” and then subs. by N.W.F.P. Act No. VI of 1977.
3.    Subs   by A. O., 1937, for "Local Government.
4.    Ins  by VV. P. Act No. XI.1 of 1958.
5.      Subs, by W.P. Ord. XXV of 1962, for “Inspector General” and then subs, by N.W.F.P. Act VI of 1977.

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(1)   a register of prisoners admitted;
(2)   a book showing when each prisoner is to be released:
(3)   a punishment book for the en try  of the punishments in­flicted on prisoners for prison-offences;
(4)   a visitor's book for the entry of any observations made by the visitors touching any matters connected with the administration of the prison,
(5)   a record of the money and other articles taken from prison-
e-rs,
and all such other records as may be prescribed by rules under section
59 H    *    *    *   ].
Medical Officer

15. On the death of any prisoner, the Medical Officer shall forth­with record in a register the following particulars, so far as they can be ascertained, namely:—
(1) the day on which the  deceased first complained of illness __     or was observed to be ill,

4       Ins. by W. P. Act No. XU of 1958.
5.  Subs, by W. P. Ord. XXV of 1962, for "Inspector General" and then subs by -
N.W.F.P. Act No. VI of 1977.

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(2)   the labour, if any, on which he was engaged on that day,
(3)   the scale of his diet on that day,
(4)   the day on which he was admitted to hospital,
(5)   the day on which the Medical Officer was first informed of the illness,
(6)   the nature of the disease,
(7)   when the deceased was last seen before his death by the Medical Officer or Medical Subordinate,
(8)   when the prisoner died, and                                     
(9)   (in cases where a post-mortem examination is made) an account of the appearances  after death.
together with any special remarks that appear to the Medical Officer to be  required.

Jailer

(2) The Jailer shall not, without the J Inspector-General   of Prisons] sanction in writing, be concerned in any other employment.

Subordinate Officers

CHAPPTER    IV
admission, removal and discharge of prisoners.

(2) Every criminal prisoner shall also, as soon as possible after admission, be examined under the general or special orders of the Medical Officer, who shall enter or cause to be entered in a book, to be kept by the Jailer, a record of the state of the prisoner's health, and of any wounds or marks on his person, the class of labour he is fit for if sentenced to rigorous imprisonment, and any observations which the Medical Officer thinks fit to add.
(3) In the case of female prisoners the search and examination shall D3 carried out by the matron under the general or special orders of the Medical Officer.

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(2) No prisoner shall be removed from one prison to another unless the Medical Officer certifies that the prisoner is free from any illness rendering him unfit for remove!.
(3) No prisoner shall be discharged against his will from prison, if labouring under any acute or dangerous distemper, nor until, in the opinion of the Medical Officer, such discharge is safe.
CHAPTER    V
discipline of prisoners

(1) in a prison containing female as well as male prisoners, the females shall be imprisoned in separate buildings, or separate parts of the same building, in such manner as to prevent their seeing, or conversing or holding any inter­course with, the male prisoners;
(2)   in a prison where male prisoners under the age of i [twenty-one] are confined, means shall be provided for separating them altogether from the other prisoners and for separat­ing those of them who have arrived at the age of puberty from those who have not;
(3)   un-convicted criminal prisoners shall be kepi apart from convicted criminal prisoners: and
(4)   civil prisoners shall be kept apart from criminal   prisoners.

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(2) Every such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart from all other prisoners, and shall be placed, by day and by night, under the charge of a guard.
CHAPTER VI
food, clothing and bedding of civil and unconvicted
criminal prisoners

(2) When any civil prisoner has been committed to prisoner in execution of a decree in favour of a private person, such person, 01 his representative, shall, within forty-eight hours after the receipt by him of a demand in writing pay to the Superintendent the cost of the clothing and bedding so supplied to the prisoner ; and in default o such payment the prisoner may be released.
CHAPTER VIJ
employment OF prisoners

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(2) Civil prisoners finding their own implements, and not maintained at the expense of the prison shall be allowed to receive the whole of their earnings; but the earnings of such as are furnished with implements or are maintained at the expense of the prison shall be subject to a deduction to be determined by the Superintendent, for the use of implements and the cost of maintenance.
35.     (1) No criminal  prisoner sentenced to labour or employed on labour at his own desire shall, except on an   emergency  with the sanction in writing of the Superintendent, be kept to labour  for more than   nine hour    in any one day.
(2) The Medical Officer shall from time to time examine the labouring prsioners while they are employed, and shall at least once in every fortnight cause to be recorded upon the history-ticket of each prisoner employed on labour the weight of such prisoner at the time.

(3) When the Medical Officer is of opinion that the health of any prisoner suffers from employment on any kind or class of labour, such prisoner shall not be employed on that labour but shall be placed on such other kind or class of labour as the Medical Officer may con­sider suited for him.

36. Provision shall be made by the Superintendent for the employment (as long as they so desire) of all criminal prisoners  sentenced to simple imprisonment; but no prisoner not sentenced to rigorous im­prisonment shall be punished for neglect of work excepting by such alteration in the scale of diet as may be established by the rules of the prison in the case of neglect of work by such a prisoner.
CHAPTER VI11
health of prisoners

37, (1) The names of prisoners desiring to see the Medical Sub­ordinate or appearing out of health in mind or body shall, without de­lay, be reported by the officer in immediate charge of such prisoners to the Jailer.

(2) The Jailer shall, without delay, call the attention of the Medical Subordinte? to any prisoners desiring to see him, or who is ill, or whose state of mind or body appears to require attention, and shall carry into effect all written directions given by the Medical Officer or Medical Subordinate respecting alterations of the discipline or treatment of any such prisoner.

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CHAPTER IX
visits   to prisoners

(2) In case of any such visitor refusing to permit himself to be searched, the Jailer may deny him admission; and the grounds of such proceedings, with the particulars thereof, shall be entered in such record as the '[Provincial Government] may direct.
CHAPTER X
offences   in    relation    to   prisons

1. Subs, by A.O., 1937, for "60".

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And every officer of a prison who, contrary to any   such rule knowingly suffers any such article to be introduced into or removed from any prison, to be possessed   by any prisoner, or to be   supplied to any prisoner outside the limits of a prison,

and whoever, contrary to  any   such  rules, communicates or attempts to communicate with any prisoner,

and whoever abets any offence made punishable by this section, shall on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to fine not exceeding two hundred rupees, or to both.

43 When any person, in the presence of any officer of a prison, !r commits any offence specified in the last foregoing section, and refuses on demand of such officer to state his name and residence, overs a name or residence which such officer knows, or has reason to believe, to be false, such officer may arrest him, an shall without unnecessary delay make him over to a Police-officer, and thereupon such Police-officer, shall proceed as if the offence had been committed in his presence.

44 The Superintendent shall cause to be affixed, in a conspi­cuous ' place outside the prison, a notice in English and the Ver­nacular setting forth the acts prohibited under section-42 and the penalties incurred by their commission.

CHAPTER XI
prison offences

45.   The following acts are declared to  be prison-offences when committed by a prisoner:-
(1) such wilful disobedience to any regulation of the  prison '  as shall have been declared by rules made under section 59 to be a prison-offence:

(2)   any assault or use of criminal force;

(3)   the use of insulting or threatening language;

(4)   immoral or indecent or disorderly behaviour;
(5}   wilfully disabling himself from labour;
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(6)   contumaciously refusing to work;

(7)   filing, cutting altering or removing handcuffs, fetters or bars without due  authority ;

(8) wilful idleness or negligence  at work by any prisoner sentenced to rigorous imprisonment.

(9) wilful mismanagement of work by any prisoner sentenced to rigorous imprisonment  ;

(10) wilful damage to prison-property ;

(11) tampering with or defacing history-tickets, records     or documents;

(12) receiving, possessing or transferring any prohibited article;

(13) feigning  illness;

(14) wilfully bringing a false accusation against any   officer or prisoner;

(15) omitting or refusing to report, as soon   as it comes to his knowledge, the occurrence of any fire, any plot or cons­piracy,  any escape, attempt or   preparation to escape, and any attack or preparation for attack upon any priso­ner or prison-official;   and

(16) conspiring to escape, or to assist in escaping, or to commit any other of the offences aforesaid.

46. The Superintendent may examine any person touching any such offence, and   determine   thereupon, and    punish    such    offence by-
(1) a formal warning  :

Explanation.-A formal warning shall mean a warn­ing personally addressed to a prisoner by the Super­intendent and recorded in the punishment book and on the prisoner's history-ticket ;

(2) change of labour to some more irksome or severe form 1 [for such period as may be prescribed by rules made by the 2 [Provincial Government] ;

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(3)   hard labour for a period not exceeding seven days in the case of convicted criminal prisoners not sentenced to rigorous imprisonment;

(4)   such loss of privileges admissible under the, remission system for the time being in force as may be prescribed by rules made by the '[Provincial Government];

(5)   the substitution of gunny or other coarse fabric for cloth­ing of other material, not being woollen, for a period which shall not exceed three' months;
imposition of handcuffs of such pattern ind, weight, in such manner and for such period, as may* be prescribed by rules made by the '[Provincial Government];

(7)   imposition of fetters of such patter and weight,, in such manner and for such period, as may for prescribed by rules made by the '[Provincial Government];

(8)   separate confinement for any period not exceeding 2[three] months;

Explanation'--Separate confinement means such con­finement with or without labour as secludes a prisoner from communication with, but not from sight of, other prisoners, and allows him not less than one hour's exer­cise per diem and to have his meals in association with one or more other prisoners ;

(9)   penal diet, that is, restriction of diet in such manner and subject to such conditions regarding labour as maybe prescribed by the '[Provincial Government]:

Provided that such restriction of diet shall in no case be applied to a prisoner for more, than ninety-six consecutive hours, and shall not be repeated except for a fresh off­ence nor until after an interval of one week;

(10) cellular confinement for any period not exceeding four to u days:

Provided that after each period of cellular confine­ment an interval of not less duration than such period must elapse before the prisoner is again sentenced to cellular or solitary confinement;

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Explanation Cellular confinement means such con­finement with or without labour as entirely secludes a prisoner from communication with, but not from sight of, other prisoners;

l[(11)] penal diet as  defined   in   clause (9) combined   with
a[cellular] confinement ,3[   *    *    *       ]

1[I2)]whipping, provided that the number of stripes shall not exceed thirty:

Provided that nothing in this section shall render any female or civil prisoner liable to the imposition of any form of handcuffs or fetters, or to whipping.

4[47.(l)] Any two of the punishments enumerated in the last fore­going section may be awarded for any such offence in combination, subject to the following exceptions, namely:

(1)   formal warning shall not be combined with any other punishment except loss of privileges under clause (4) of that section;

(2)   penal diet shall not be combined with change of  labour under clause (2) of   that section, nor shall any additional period of penal diet a warded singly be combined with any period of  penal   diet   awarded   in   combination   with 5[cellular] confinement :
cellular confinement shall not be combined with separate confinement, so as to prolong the total period of seclusion to which the prisoner shall be liable;]
(4) whipping shall not be combined with any other form of punishment except cellular 7[and] separate confinement and loss of privilege admissible under the remission system;

7.          Subs, by the Repeating and Amending Aci. IV14 <\) of 1914). s. 2 ; andd Sch, I,    for "or".
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1[ (5) no punishment will be combined with any other punishment in contravention of rules made by the 2[Provincial Government].

1[(2) No punishment shall be awarded for any such offence so as to combine, with the punishment awarded for any other such offen­ce, two of the punishments which may not be awarded in combina­tion for any such offence.]

(2) No officer subordinate to the  Superintendent shall have power to award any punishment whatever.

(2) If he considers the prisoner unfit to undergo the punish­ment he shall in like manner record his opinion in writing and shall state whether the prisoner is absolutely until for punishment of the kind awarded, or whether he considers any modification necessary.
(3) In the latter case he shall state what extent of punishment he thinks the prisoner can undergo without injury to his health.

3       Subs, by W. P. Ord. XXV of 1962. for" Inspector General and then subs by N. W. F. P Act No. VI of 1977.

(2) In the case of every serious prison-offence, the names of the witnesses proving the offence shall be recorded, and, in the case of offences for which whipping is awarded, the Superintendent shall record the substance of the evidence of the witnesses, the defence of the prisoner, and the finding with the reasons therefor.

(3) Against the entries relating to each punishment the Jailer and Superintendent shall affix their initials as evidence of the correct­ness of the entries.

2Provided that any such case may be transferred for inquiry and trial by the District Magistrate to any Magistrate of the first class -'[.  *    *]":]   and

Provided also that no person shall be punished twice for   the same  offence.

3.    TU words " and by a Chief Presidency Magistrate to any other Presidency Magistrate" omitted b> A.O., 1949.

(2) Whipping shall be inflicted with a light ratan not less than half an inch in diameter on the buttocks, and in case of prisoners under the age of sixteen it shall be inflicted, in the way of school discipline, with a lighter ratan.

(2) No person shall under this section   be punished twice for the  same  offence.
CHAPTER XH
miscellaneous

2.Subs, by A.O., 1937, for "Local Government."
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57. (I) Prisoners under sentence of ' [imprisonment for life] may,, subject to any rules made under section 2[59], he confined in fetters for the first three months after admission to prison.
(2) Should the Superintendent consider it necessary, either for the safe custody of the prisoner himself or for any other reason, that fetters should be retained on any such prisoner for more than three months he shall apply to the '[Inspector-General .of Prisons} for san­ction to their retention for the period for. which he considers their retention necessary, and the 3[Inspector general of Prisons] may sanction such retantion accordingly.
58. No prisoner shall put in irons or under mechanical restraint by the Jailer of his own authority, except in case of urgent & out necessity, in which case notice thereof shall be forthwith given. to the Super­intendent.
59. 4[The Provincial Government] may make rules consistent with this Act—
(1) defining the act which shall constitute prison-offences ;
(2) determining the classification of prison-offences; serious and minor offences;
(3)   fixing the punishments admissible under this Act which shall be awardable for commission of prison-offences or classes thereof;
(4)   declaring the circumstances in which Acts constituting both ; prison-offence and an offence under the Pakistan Penal Code may or may not be dealt with as a prison-offence ;
(5)   for the award of mark;; and the   shortening of sentences ;; [so however, that a sentence of imprisonment for life is not shortened to a period of imprisonment less than   15 years];

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(6)   regulating the use of arms against any prisoner or body of prisoners in the case of an outbreak or attempt toes-cape ;
(7)   defining the circumstances and regulating the conditions under which prisoners in danger of death may be released;
l[(8) for the classification of prisons, and description and construction of wards, cells and other places of detention:
(9)   for the regulation by numbers, length or character of sen­tences, or otherwise, of the prisoners to be confined in each class of prisons ;]
(10) for the Government of prisons and for the appointment of all officers appointed under this Act ;
(11) as to the food, bedding and clothing of criminal prisoners and of civil prisoners maintained otherwise than at thier own cost ;
(12) for the employment, instruction and control of convicts within or without prisons ;
(13) for defining articles the introduction or removal of which into or out of prisons without due authority is prohibited ;
(14) for classifying and prescribing the forms of labour and regulating the periods of rest from labour ;
(15) For regulating the disposal of the proceeds of the employ­ment of prisoners;
(16) for regulating the confinement in fetters of prisoners sentenced to 2[imprisonment for life] ;
(17) for the classification and the separation of prisoners:
(18) for regulating the confinement of convicted criminal prisoners under section 28:

(19) for the preparation and maintenance of history-tickets ;

(20) for the selection and appointment of prisoners as officers of prisons;

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(21)  for rewards for good conduct..

(22) for regulating the transfer of prisoners whose term of 1[imprisonment for life or shorter]or imprisonment is about to expire, subject, however, to the consent of the Provincial Government of any other province to which a prisoner is to be transferred. 

(23) for the treatment, transfer and disposal of criminal lunatics or recovered criminal lunatics confined in prisons;

(24) for regulating the transmission of appeals and petitions from prisoners and their communications with their friends ;

(25) for the appointment and guidance of visitors of   prisons;

(26) for extending any or all of the provisions of this Act and of the rules there under to subsidiary jails or special places of confinement appointed under section 541 of the 2Code of Criminal Procedure, 1 882, and to the officers employed , and the prisoners confined, therein :

(27) in regard to the admission, custody, employment, dieting, treatment and release of prisoners: and

(28) generally for carrying into effect the purposes of this Act.

61. Copies of rules, under -'[section] so far as they  affect the government of prisons, shall be exhibited both in English and in the vernacular, in some place to which    all persons  employed within a prison   have access. 

62. All or any of the powers and duties conferred an<l imposed by this Act on a Superintendent or Medical Officer may in his absence he exercised and performed by- such other Officer as the 4[Provincial Government] may appoint in this behalf ; "'either by name or by his official designation .

THE SCHEDULE—[ENACTMENTS REPEALED}. Rep. -by   the
Repealing Act, 1938 (/o/1938);s. 2

4.       Subs, ibid, for “Local Government.”

THE REFORMATORY SCHOOLS ACT.  1897
(Act No. VITT   of 1897),
CONTENTS
I—preliminary
sections
1.    Title and exient:
2—3.    [Repealed].
4.    Definitions.

II-REFORMATORY    SCHOOLS

5.    Power to establish and discontinue Reformatory Schools.

6.    Requisites of schools.

7.    Inspection of Reformatory Schools.

8.    Power of Courts to direct youthful offenders to  be  sent  to Reformatory Schools.

9. Procedure where Magistrate is not empowered to pass an order
under  section  8.                                               .

10. Power of Magistrates to direct boys under fifteen sentenced to imprisonment to be sent to Reformatory Schools.

11    Preliminary     inquiry     and finding   as to age of youthful offender.

12. Government   to   determine   Reformatory School to   which such offenders shall be sent.

13.    Persons found to be over eighteen years not to be detained in Reformatory Schools.

14.    Discharge or removal by order of Government.

15.    Agreement  between  Provinces.

16.    Certain orders not subject to appeal or revision.

III — management of reformatory schools

17. Appointment of Superintendent and Committee of   Visitors or Board of Management.
Sections.

18.   Superintendent may license youthful offenders to employ­ers of labours.

19.  Cancellation of license.

20.  Determination of license.

21.  Cancellation of license in case of ill-treatment.

22.   Superintendent to be deemed guardian   of  youthful offenders.
Power to apprentice youthful offender.

23.   Duties of Committee of Visitors.

24.   Powers of Board of Management.

25. Power to appoint Trustees or other Managers of a school to be a Board of  Management.

26. Power of Board to make rules. IV   offences fn    relation  to   reformatory    schools

27. Penalty for introduction or removal or supply of pro­hibited articles and communication with youthful offen­ders.

28.    Penalty for abetting escape  of youthful offender.

29.    Arrest of escaped youthful offender.

V- -MISCHELLANEOUS

30.    [Repealed].

31. Power to deal in other ways with youthful offenders inclu­ding girls.

32. Procedure when youthful offender under detention in a Reformatory School is again convicted and sentenced.

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