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CAP. 298]

Probation of Offenders Rules

[1987 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

Appointment of medical officers and their general duties.

Prevention of diseases.

Serious illness or death of a probationer. L.N. 42/73.

(a) forfeiture of rewards or privileges or temporary loss of

recreation;

(b) imposition of additional occupation.

(4) No probationer in an approved institution shall be allowed to administer any form of punishment to any other probationer therein.

(5) The superintendent shall keep and maintain a book (to be known as the Punishment Book) and shall record therein any punishment imposed under the provisions of this rule. Any such punishment shall also be recorded in the individual case record of the probationer punished.

Medical care of probationers

38. The Governor shall appoint such medical officers as he may consider necessary to visit approved institutions, whose duties shall include-

(a) the examination of every probationer as soon as practica-

ble after admission to an approved institution;

(b) recording in each probationer's case record an opinion as to the physical or mental health of the probationer on admission to the institution and from time to time there- after as circumstances may require;

(c) the medical care of and responsibility for the treatment when sick of any probationer in an approved institution, including the power to cause the removal of any proba- tioner in need of special treatment to a suitable hospital or institution;

(d) the periodic inspection of approved institutions from the

hygienic point of view;

(e) advice as to dietary and general hygiene;

(f) the keeping of medical records in which shall be entered

particulars of every medical examination carried out under this rule and case notes relating to any probationer receiv- ing medical attention.

39. Every medical officer shall take such action and employ such treatment as he may consider necessary or expedient to prevent or mitigate any epidemic or endemic contagious or infectious disease in any approved institution to which he is, for the time being, assigned.

40. (1) If any probationer in an approved institution becomes seriously ill, or contracts or suffers from any infectious or contagious disease, or becomes seriously injured in any accident or otherwise, the superintendent of the institution shall forthwith report the fact to the Director and to the parent or guardian (if any) of the probationer.