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1977 Ed.]

Reformatory School Rules

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(4) If after the award of caning the detained person informs the superintendent that he wishes to forgo his right of appeal, the superintendent shall record this in the punishment book, and the award shall be carried out as soon as practicable thereafter.

(5) Subject to paragraph (4) an award of caning shall not be carried out until 48 hours after the making of the award; and if an appeal has been lodged within that period, the superintendent shall stay execution of the award pending the determination of the appeal. (6) The Director may confirm, vary or reverse any award against which an appeal is made.

(7) Where an award of caning is made-

(a) the award shall specify the number of strokes to be

inflicted;

(b) in the case of an offender of or above the age of 14 years,

the number of strokes shall not exceed 12;

(c) in the case of an offender below the age of 14 years, the

number of strokes shall not exceed 6;

(d) the caning shall be administered on the clothed buttocks

of the offender;

(e) a light cane or rattan of sugh type as may be approved by

the Governor shall be used.

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[Subsidiary]

Duties of

12B. (1) The superintendent and the medical officer shall attend on every occasion when a caning, is inflicted, and no detained superintendent person shall be caned unless the medical officer has certified in writing that such detained person is in a fit condition of health to undergo such caning.

(2) The medical officer shall make such recommendations for preventing injury to the health of a detained person undergoing such caning as he considers necessary and the superintendent shall carry them into effect

(3) At any time during the caning the medical officer may, if he considers it pecessary in order to prevent injury to the health of the detained person, recommend that further caning shall not be inflicted whereupon the superintendent shall remit the remainder of the caning,

(4) The superintendent shall enter in the punishment book the hour at which such caning was inflicted, the number of strokes inflicted, and any order which he may have given as to remission.

and medical officer. L.N. 163/77.

PART IV

MEDICAL CARE

13. The duties of a medical officer appointed under section 12 of the Ordinance shall be--

Duties of medical officers.

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