CAP. 234]

Prisons

[1986 Ed.

Miscellaneous.

(f) the duties and powers of visiting justices or visiting committees;

(g) the conditions under which visitors may be allowed in the prisons; and hostels.

(h) the classification, clothing, maintenance, employment, discipline, instruction and correction of the prisoners; (Amended, 19 of 1969, s. 7)

(i) the remission of a portion of their sentences;

(j) the granting of gratuities to the prisoners or the remuneration of prisoners for work done;

(k) the regulation of the execution of judgments of death and burials of executed prisoners;

(l) all other matters relating to the prisons and hostels

(2) Any rule made under this Ordinance may provide that a contravention thereof shall be an offence and may provide punishment and penalties for such offence not exceeding a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment for 6 months.

(3) Rules made under paragraph (de) of subsection (1) may authorize the Governor to delegate to the Secretary for the Civil Service, or to a public officer not below the rank of Secretary, the determination of an appeal referred to in that paragraph. (Added, 35 of 1977, s. 6)

26. Wherever any of the following expressions appears in any enactment, it shall be deleted and substituted-

(a) in the case of the expression "Deputy Commissioner of Prisons" by the following-

"Deputy Commissioner of Correctional Services";

(b) in the case of the expression "Senior Superintendent of Prisons" by the following-

"Senior Superintendent of Correctional Services”;

(c) in the case of the expression "female prison officers" by the following-

"female officers";

(d) in the case of the expression "male prison officers" by the following-

"male officers";

(e) in the case of the expressions--

(i) "prison officers"; and

(ii) "officers of the prison",

by the following-

"officers";

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