PRISONS.
No. 4 of 1899.
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under ss. 11-14. The Superintendent of Prisons shall cause to be affixed in a conspicuous place outside every prison a notice, in English and in Chinese, setting forth the penalties that will be incurred by persons committing any offence in contravention of sections 11, 12 and 13.
28 & 29 Vict. c. 126, s. 40.
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prisoner
15. It shall be the duty of the magistrate discharging the Inquiry on duties of coroner to hold an inquiry on the body of every prisoner who may die within a prison, and in no case shall any officer of the prison, or any prisoner confined in the prison, or any person engaged in any sort of trade or dealing with the prison, be a juror on such inquiry.
28 & 29 Vict. c. 126, s. 48; 50 & 51 Vict. c. 57, s. 3.
[s. 16, rep. No. 31 of 1911.]
Misconduct of subordinate prison officers and servants.
17. Every subordinate prison officer or servant who,-- (1) after having been duly engaged to serve as such, absents himself from his duties, or refuses or neglects to obey any lawful order, or is guilty of any breach of discipline, or any insubordination; or (2) on being dismissed or permitted to resign from or ceasing to belong to the prison service, does not deliver up all arms, accoutrements, appointments and things entrusted to him for the performance of his duty as such officer or servant, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, and further shall forfeit all pay during any such imprisonment.
18.--(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make rules for the regulation and government of prisons, and for the duties and conduct of the officers and other persons employed in prisons, and for the punishment by fine, degradation to a lower rank or pay, discharge or dismissal of such officers or other persons, and for the duties of the visiting justices, and for the conditions under which visitors may be allowed in prisons, and for the classification, diet, clothing, maintenance, employment, discipline, instruction, and correction of prisoners, and the remission of a portion of their sentences, and the granting of gratuities to them, and for all other matters relating to prisons.
* As amended by No. 15 of 1923 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
‡ As amended by No. 15 of 1923.