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ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1885 . 1919


Prison.


SPECIAL RULES

for prisoners awaiting trial, those remanded from the Police Court, and those
committed for the first time in default offinding security.

141. Such prisoners shall be kept apart from convicted prisoners and not allowed
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to see them at any time.

142. Such prisoners shall not be required to take a bath on reception , if, on the
application of the prisoner, the Superintendent shall decide that it is unnecessary , or
the Surgeon shall state that it is for medical reasons unadvisable.

143. In order to prevent such prisoners from being contaminated by each other,
or endeavouring to defeat the ends of justice, they shall be kept separate, so far as
the prison accommodation will allow, and shall not be permitted to communicate
together.

144. The Visiting Justices or Superintendent before granting any permission
which by the following rules they are authorised or required to grant, shall satisfy
themselves that it can be granted without interfering with the security, good order,
and government of the prison and prisoners therein ; and if, after it has been granted ,
its continuance seems likely to cause any such interference, or if the prisoner has
abused such permission , or has been guilty of any misconduct, the Visiting Justices
shall have power to suspend or withdraw such permission, and in like circumstances
the Superintendent may withdraw or suspend the same when it has been granted by
himself, or suspend it when it has been granted by the Visiting Justices if the case is
urgent, provided he report the case as soon as possible.

145. The Visiting Justices or the Superintendent shall, on the application of any
such prisoner, if, having regard to his ordinary habits and condition of life they think
such special provision should be made in respect to him, permit any such prisoner

1. To occupy a suitable room or cell specially fitted for such prisoners, and
furnished with suitable bedding and other articles, in addition to, or
different from those furnished for ordinary cells.

2. To exercise separately, or with selected untried prisoners, if the arrange
ments and the construction of the prison permit it.

3. To have, at his own cost, the use of private furniture and utensils suitable
to his ordinary habits, to be approved by the Superintendent.

4. To be relieved from performing any menial unaccustomed work.

146. The Superintendent may modify the routine of the prison in regard to any
such prisoner, so far as to dispense with any practice which, in the Superintendent's
opinion, is clearly unnecessary in the case of that particular prisoner.

147. Any such prisoner who prefers to provide his own food for any meal shall
give notice thereof beforehand at the time required ; but the Superintendent shall not