Addition of
new
regulation
20A.
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therefor any other award which the
officer-in-charge was competent to make
under paragraph (2).
(6) Rule 64(1) of the Prison Rules
shall not apply in relation to an award
of caning made under paragraph (2)."
7.
The principal regulations are amended by
adding, after regulation 20, the following new
regulation
"Duties of officer-in- charge and medical officer at caning.
20A. (1) The officer-in-charge and
the medical officer shall attend on
every occasion when a caning, awarded
under regulation 20(2)(g), is inflicted.
(2) The medical officer shall make
such recommendations for preventing
injury to the health of an inmate
undergoing such caning as he may deem
necessary and the officer-in-charge shall
carry them into effect.
(3) At any time during the infliction
of such caning the medical officer may if
he deems it necessary in order to prevent
injury to the health of the inmate,
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