1986 Ed.]
Prison Rules
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141A. If an officer of the Correctional Services Department or other person employed in the prisons is discharged or dismissed, or resigns, retires or dies, the quarters which he has occupied shall, when the Commissioner so requires, be delivered up to the Government.
142. Rules 134 to 140 inclusive shall apply to all other persons employed in the prisons.
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Quarters to be delivered up on resignation etc. of officer. L.N. 2/74. L.N. 30/82.
Application of rules 134 to 140 to persons employed in prisons.
(d) Medical
(i) Medical Officer
143. The Medical Officer shall-
(a) have the medical charge and shall be responsible for the treatment when sick of all the prisoners in a prison;
(b) give medical advice and assistance, including medicines, to the officers of the Correctional Services Department and their families;
(c) keep such statistical records and furnish such returns and reports as may be ordered by the Commissioner relative to the health and medical treatment of such officers and prisoners, the sanitary conditions of a prison and of the quarters occupied by such officers.
144. The Medical Officer shall-
(a) visit every prison under his charge at times to be arranged by the Commissioner, or at such other times as may be necessary;
(b) every day see such of the prisoners who complain of illness and report in writing to the Superintendent their fitness or otherwise for labour;
(c) for the information of the Superintendent, enter in a book kept for that purpose all directions which he may deem necessary to give relative to the treatment of any prisoner not admitted to the hospital;
(d) make daily visits to the sick in the prison hospital;
(e) attend at once any officer of the Correctional Services Department or prisoner on the receipt of information that he is seriously ill;
(f) make daily visits to all prisoners undergoing punishment, in separate confinement, or under special discipline;
(g) make daily examinations of the newly admitted prisoners and pass them fit for labour or otherwise;
General duties. L.N. 30/82.
Duty to prisoners. L.N. 30/82.