Prisons Act, 1894

Bare Act · 1894

An Act to amend the law relating to Prisons.

Act number: 9 of 1894
Enacted: 22 March 1894
Contents: 62 sections · 12 chapters

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Contents

Chapter I — Preliminary

Chapter II — Maintenance And Officers Of Prisons

Chapter III — Duties Of Officers

Section 8 – Control and duties of officers of prisons (preview)
Section 9 – Officers not to have business dealings with prisoners (preview)
Section 10 – Officers not to be interested in prison-contracts (preview)
Section 11 – Superintendent (preview)
Section 12 – Records to be kept by Superintendent (preview)
Section 13 – Duties of Medical Officer (preview)
Section 14 – Medical Officer to report in certain cases (preview)
Section 15 – Report on death of prisoner (preview)
Section 16 – Jailer (preview)
Section 17 – Jailer to give notice of death of prisoner (preview)
Section 18 – Responsibility of Jailer (preview)
Section 19 – Jailer to be present at night (preview)
Section 20 – Powers of Deputy and Assistant Jailers (preview)
Section 21 – Duties of gate-keeper (preview)
Section 22 – Subordinate officers not to be absent without leave (preview)
Section 23 – Convict officers (preview)

Chapter IV — Admission, Removal And Discharge Of Prisoners

Section 24 – Prisoners to be examined on admission (preview)
Section 25 – Effects of prisoners (preview)
Section 26 – Removal and discharge of prisoners (preview)

Chapter V — Disciplineof Prisoners

Section 27 – Separation of prisoners (preview)
Section 28 – Association and segregation of prisoners (preview)
Section 29 – Solitary confinement (preview)
Section 30 – Prisoners under sentence of death (preview)

Chapter VI — Food, Clothing And Bedding Of Civiland Unconvicted Criminal Prisoners

Chapter VII — Employmentof Prisoners

Section 34 – Employment of civil prisoners (preview)
Section 35 – Employment of criminal prisoners (preview)
Section 36 – Employment of criminal prisoners sentenced to simple imprisonment (preview)

Chapter VIII — Health Of Prisoners

Section 37 – Sick prisoners (preview)
Section 38 – Record of directions of Medical Officers (preview)
Section 39 – Hospital (preview)

Chapter IX — Visitsto Prisoners

Section 40 – Visits to civil and unconvicted criminal prisoners (preview)
Section 41 – Search of visitors (preview)

Chapter X — Offences In Relation To Prisoners

Chapter XI — Prison-Offences

Section 45 – Prison-offences (preview)
Section 46 – Punishment of such offences (preview)
Section 47 – Plurality of punishments under section 46 (preview)
Section 48 – Award of punishments under sections 46 and 47 (preview)
Section 49 – Punishments to be in accordance with foregoing sections (preview)
Section 50 – Medical Officer to certify to fitness of prisoner for punishment (preview)
Section 51 – Entries in punishment-books (preview)
Section 52 – Procedure on committal of heinous offence (preview)
Section 53 – Whipping (preview)
Section 54 – Offences by prison-subordinates (preview)

Chapter XII — Miscellaneous

Section 55 – Extramural custody, control and employment of prisoners (preview)
Section 56 – Confinement in irons (preview)
Section 57 – Confinement of prisoners under sentence of transportation in irons (preview)
Section 58 – Prisoners not to be ironed by Jailer except under necessity (preview)
Section 59 – Power to make rules (preview)
Section 60 – [Repealed.] (preview)
Section 61 – Exhibition of copies of rules (preview)
Section 62 – Exercise of powers of Superintendent and Medical Officer (preview)