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[Subsidiary]
Payment of portion of fine to obtain remission. (Cap. 221.)
(Cap. 227.)
Discharge on general holiday. L.N. 178/70.
CAP. 234]
Prison Rules
[1986 Ed.
person to undertake such care. If the Commissioner is unable to find any relative of the child to whose care such child may properly be entrusted, then he may commit such child to the care of any person or institution approved by the Governor.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) the Commissioner may permit any child to remain in the prison until the mother has completed her sentence or such child has attained the age of 3 years whichever is the earlier.
(4) Any child retained in prison may be supplied with clothing at the public expense.
22. Any payment made in part satisfaction of the sum adjudged to be paid by a prisoner and of any charges for which he is liable, in order to obtain the remission of a part of his imprisonment, as provided by section 114 of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance and section 37 of the Magistrates Ordinance shall be made only on a week-day between the hours of 9 and 12 in the morning and 2 and 4 in the afternoon.
22A. A prisoner due for discharge on a general holiday shall be discharged on the day next preceding that day which is not a general holiday.
Possession of articles without authority.
Examination and search.
(b) Prohibited Articles
23. (1) No prisoner shall without authority have in his possession any article, and any such article found in his possession shall be confiscated by the Superintendent.
(2) No person shall without authority convey or throw into, or deposit in, a prison, or convey or throw out of a prison, or convey to any prisoner, or deposit with a view to its coming into the possession of any prisoner, any money, clothing, food, drink, tobacco, letter, paper, book, tool or other article whatsoever. Any article so conveyed, thrown or deposited without authority may be confiscated by the Superintendent.
24. (1) All persons and vehicles entering or leaving a prison may be examined and searched.
(2) A person suspected-
(a) of bringing without authority any article into a prison; or
(b) of carrying out without authority-
(i) any article; or
(ii) any property belonging to a prison; or
(c) while in a prison of being-
(i) in possession without authority of any article; or
(ii) in improper possession of any property belonging to a prison,