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[Subsidiary]
Protected rooms. L.N. 242/83.
Remission of sentence. 46 of 1983, s. 4.
(Cap. 221.)
L.N. 112/85.
L.N. 112/85.
(46 of 1983.)
Review of sentences of certain prisoners.
L.N. 5/67.
CAP. 234]
Prison Rules
[1986 Ed.
68A. (1) The Medical Officer may for the purpose of ensuring that a prisoner does not cause harm or hardship to himself or to some other person, order that prisoner to be confined in a protected room certified in the same manner as rooms to which rule 3 applies, but no prisoner shall be confined in such a room as a punishment or after he has ceased to be likely to cause such harm or hardship.
(2) Particulars of every case of confinement under this rule shall be forthwith entered by the Medical Officer in his journal.
(4) REMISSION
69. (1) A prisoner serving a sentence of imprisonment for an actual term of more than 1 month may, on the ground of his industry and good conduct, be granted remission in accordance with the provisions of this rule:
Provided that this rule shall not permit the reduction of the actual term to less than 31 days.
(2) The remission granted under this rule shall not exceed one-third of the total of the actual term and any period spent in custody taken into account under section 67A of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance (which relates to the computation of a sentence of imprisonment).
(3) For the purposes of this rule-
(a) a person committed to prison in default of payment of a sum adjudged to be paid by a conviction shall be treated as serving a sentence of imprisonment; and
(b) consecutive terms of imprisonment shall be treated as one term.
(4) This rule shall have effect subject to any disciplinary award or forfeiture of remission, and shall not apply to a prisoner serving a sentence of imprisonment for life.
(4A) This rule shall not apply in the case of a sentence of imprisonment passed before 12 August 1983, and in any such case revoked rule 69 shall apply.
(5) In this rule-
(a) "actual term" means the term of a sentence of imprisonment as reduced by section 67A of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance;
(b) "revoked rule 69" means the rule 69 of these rules that was deleted by the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance 1983.
Subject to paragraph (2B), the
69A. (1) The Commissioner shall submit to the Governor for review the case of any prisoner of any category specified in the first column of paragraph (2) at the intervals specified in relation thereto in the second column of paragraph (2).
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