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[Subsidiary]
L.N. 71/72.
L.N. 170/77. L.N. 30/82. L.N. 165/83. 2191/190
CAP. 239]
Detention Centres Regulations
[1983 Ed.
DETENTION CENTRES REGULATIONS
(Cap. 239, section 11)
1.
Citation.
Interpretation.
Administration of detention centres.
L.N. 30/82.
Reception of detainees.
Medical examination. L.N. 170/77.
Personal record of detainees.
L.N. 170/77.
Grades.
Recreation.
[16 June 1972]
These regulations may be cited as the Detention Centres Regulations.
2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires— “Officer-in-charge" means an officer appointed under regulation 3(2)(b) to be in charge of a detention centre;
"Superintendent" means the officer appointed under regulation 3(2)(a) to assist the Commissioner in the administration of detention centres.
3. (1) The Commissioner shall have the general charge and control of all detention centres.
(2) The Commissioner shall appoint—
(a) an officer of the Correctional Services Department to assist him in the administration of detention centres, who shall be known as the Superintendent of detention centres;
(b) an officer of the Correctional Services Department to be Officer-in-charge of each detention centre; and
(c) such officers of the Correctional Services Department and other persons as he may consider necessary for service in detention centres.
4. The Officer-in-charge of a detention centre to which a detainee is directed by the Commissioner shall make arrangements for the reception in the detention centre of the detainee.
5. A detainee shall, on the day of his admission or re-admission to a detention centre or as soon as possible thereafter, be examined by a medical officer.
6. A detainee shall, as soon as possible after his admission or re-admission, be interviewed by the Officer-in-charge, who shall enter in the detainee's record such particulars or further particulars of the detainee as he considers desirable.
7. (1) Detainees shall be divided into such grades as the Commissioner may approve.
(2) The privileges of each grade shall be specified by the Commissioner.
8. At least one hour a day shall be devoted to physical training or to organized games, and such period shall be deemed to be work for the purposes of regulation 9.