Section Text
In this Act--
(1) "prison" means any jail or place used permanently or temporarily under the general or special orders of a State Government for the detention of prisoners, and includes all lands and buildings appurtenant thereto, but does not include--
(a) any place for the confinement of prisoners who are exclusively in the custody of the police;
(b) any place specially appointed by the State Government under section 541 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882 (10 of 1882); or
(c) any place which has been declared by the State Government by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail;
(2) "criminal prisoner" means any prisoner duly committed to custody under the writ, warrant or order of any Court or authority exercising criminal jurisdiction, or by order of a Court-martial;
(3) "convicted criminal prisoner" means any criminal prisoner under sentence of a Court or Court-martial, and includes a person detained in prison under the provisions of Chapter VIII of the1Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882 (10 of 1882) or under the2Prisoners Act, 1871 (5 of 1871);
(4) "civil prisoner" means any prisoner who is not a criminal prisoner;
(5) "remission system" means the rules for the time being in force regulating the award of marks to, and the consequent shortening of sentences of, prisoners in jail;
(6) "history-ticket" means me ticket exhibiting such information as is required in respect of each prisoner by this Act or the
rules thereunder;
(7) "Inspector General" means the Inspector General of Prisons;
(8) "Medical Subordinate" means an Assistant Surgeon, Apothecary or qualified Hospital Assistant; and
(9) "prohibited article" means an article the introduction or removal of which into or out of a prison is prohibited by any rule under this Act.
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1. The relevant provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898) to be referred to.
2. Now the Prisoners Act, 1990 (3 of 1900).