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1977 Ed.]

Prison Rules

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(f) visitors shall not be admitted until they have recorded their names and addresses, their relationship to or con- nexion with the prisoner they wish to visit;

(fa) visitors shall not be admitted unless they have satisfied an officer of the Prisons Department, if so required, as to their identity;

(g) the Superintendent may, in special cases, extend the dura-

tion of a visit;

(h) the Superintendent may permit any convicted prisoner to see his relatives or friends for the purpose of making arrangements respecting his property or for any other special reason;

(i) the Superintendent may allow a prisoner who is entitled to a visit to write a letter and receive a reply instead of such visit.

49. Any police officer may visit prisoners for the purpose of identification parades, on production of an order from the proper police or magisterial authority.

50. Officers of the Court, with competent warrants or orders for serving writs or other legal process on persons within the prison, shall be admitted into the prison for that purpose.

51. A person committed to prison in default of the payment of a sum which in pursuance of any conviction or order he is required to pay shall be allowed to have an interview with his friends on a week-day at any reasonable hour, or to communicate by letter with them for the purpose of providing for a payment which would procure his release from prison, and every such prisoner shall on his admission be informed of this rule.

52. (1) Reasonable facilities shall be allowed for the legal adviser of a prisoner who is party to legal proceedings, civil or criminal, to interview the prisoner with reference to those proceed- ings in the sight but not in the hearing of an officer of the Prisons Department.

(2) The legal adviser of a prisoner may, with the permission of the Commissioner, interview the prisoner with reference to any other legal business in the sight and hearing of an officer of the Prisons Department.

(3) At such interviews the legal adviser may be accompanied by his clerk or interpreter.

(4) If written authority from his principal is produced, the clerk or interpreter to a legal adviser may for the purposes stated in paragraphs (1) and (2) interview the prisoner unaccompanied by his principal.

[Subsidiary]

L.N. 65/69.

Visits by police officers.

Visits by officers of the Court.

Persons imprisoned on default of payment.

Visits by legal adviser.

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