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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25тH MARCH, 1899.
Days and hours for
visits.
Names and addresses of
recorded.
(4.) The days and hours for visits to the prisoners shall be fixed by the Superintendent, and shall be publicly notified at the gates of the prison.
(5.) No visits shall be made on a Sunday except in cases of emergency.
(6.) No visitors shall be admitted until they visitors to be have given their names and addresses and stated their relationship to or connection with the pri- soners they wish to see, and these particulars shall be duly recorded.
Visits by
officers of Police.
Visits by Officers of the Law.
Communica- tions by prisoners committed in default of money.
Prisoners' letters.
Power to postpone or forfeit privileges.
Petitions.
Persons
authorised
to award
279. An officer of Police may visit prisoners for the purpose of identification, on production of an order from the proper Police or Magisterial authority.
280. Officers of the Law, with competent warrants or orders for serving writs or other legal process on persons within the prison, shall be admitted into the prison for that purpose.
281. Prisoners committed to prison in default of the payment of any sum which, in pursuance of any conviction or order, they
or order, they are required to pay, shall be allowed to communicate by letter with and to see any of their friends, or their solicitors, at any reasonable time, for the bonâ fide purpose of providing for the payment which would procure their release from prison.
282. All letters to and from prisoners (except as provided by rule 162) shall be read by the Assistant Superintendent, and if the contents are objectionable it shall not be forwarded, or the objectionable part shall be erased according to discretion.
283. The privilege of writing and receiving letters and receiving visits may be postponed or forfeited at any time by misconduct, if so ordered by the Assistant Superintendent.
284. All prisoners may petition the Governor once shortly after conviction if they wish, but not afterwards unless there are any special circumstances which the Superintendent may consider should be brought to the notice of the Governor, or unless such prisoner has been over one year in prison.
.PRISON OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENTS.
285. No punishment or privation of any kind shall be awarded to a prisoner by any officer of punishments. the prison except the Superintendent, the Assist- ant Superintendent, or, in the absence of the latter, the officer appointed to act for him, or by any of these officers in conjunction with a Visiting Justice.
Opportuni- ties for defence.
Offences
against
prison discipline
286. No persons shall be punished under the provisions of The Prison Ordinance, 1899, or of these rules, until they have had an opportunity of hearing the charges and evidence against them and of making their defence.
287. A prisoner shall be guilty of an offence. against prison discipline if he
1. Disobeys any order of the Superintend- ent or of any other officer, or any pri- son regulation.