Act Text
Chapter1 - PRELIMINARY
Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Repealed. [Repealed by the Repealing Act, 1938
Section3 - Definitions.—In this Act—
Chapter2 - MAINTENANCE AND OFFICERS OF PRISONS
Section4 - Accommodation for prisoners
Section5 - Inspector General.—1[
Section6 - Officers of prisons.—For every prison there shall be a Superintendent, a Medical Officer
Chapter3 - DUTIES OF OFFICERS Section 8 - Generally
Section8 - Control and duties of officers
Section9 - Officers not to have business
Section10 - Officers not to be interested in
Section12 - Records to be kept by Superintendent
Section13 - Duties of Medical Officer
Section14 - Medical Officer to report in certain cases
Section15 - Report on death of prisoner. Section 16 - Jailor
Section16 - Jailor.—
Section17 - Jailor to give notice of death of prisoner
Section18 - Responsibility of Jailor
Chapter8 - .
CHAPTER VIII
Section19 - Jailor to be present at night.—The Jailor shall not be absent from the prison for a night without permission in writing
Section20 - Powers of Deputy and Assistant Jailors
Section21 - Duties of gate keeper.—The officer acting as gate-keeper, or any other officer of the prison, may examine anything
Section22 - Subordinate officers not to be absent
Section23 - Convict officers.—Prisoners who have been appointed as officers of prisons shall be deemed to be public servants within
Chapter4 - ADMISSION, REMOVAL AND DISCHARGE OF PRISONERS
Section24 - Prisoners to be examined on admission.—
Section25 - Effects of prisoners.—All money or other articles in respect whereof no order of a competent Court has been made, and
Section26 - Removal and discharge of prisoners
Section27 - Separation of prisoners
Section28 - Association and segregation of prisoners
Section29 - Solitary confinement.—No cell shall be used for solitary confinement unless it is furnished with the means of enabling
Section30 - Prisoners under sentence of death
Section31 - Maintenance of certain prisoners from
Section32 - Restriction on transfer of food and
Section33 - Supply of clothing and bedding to civil
Section34 - Employment of civil prisoners
Section35 - Employment of criminal prisoners
Section36 - Employment of criminal prisoners Section 17 - sentenced to simple imprisonment
Section37 - Sick prisoners.—
Section38 - Record of directions of Medical Officers. Section 23 - without leave
Section39 - Hospital
Chapter9 - Sections
Section40 - Visits to civil and unconvicted criminal
Section41 - Search of visitors.—
Chapter10 - OFFENCES IN RELATION TO PRISONS
Section42 - Penalty for introduction or removal of
Section43 - Power to arrest for offence under section
Chapter11 - PRISON-OFFENCES
Section45 - Prison-offences.—The following acts are declared to be prison-offences when committed by a prisoner :—
Section46 - Punishment of such offences
Section47 - Plurality of punishments under section 46
Section48 - Award of punishments under sections 46 and
Section49 - Punishments to be in accordance with
Section50 - Medical Officer to certify to fitness of
Section51 - Entries in punishment-books
Section52 - Procedure on committal of heinous
Section53 - Whipping
Section54 - Offences by prison-subordinates
Section55 - Extramural
Section56 - Confinement in irons
Section57 - Confinement of prisoners under sentence
Section58 - Prisoners not to be ironed by Jailer except Section 45 - under necessity
Section59 - Power to make rules.—2[
Section61 - Exhibition of copies of rules
Section62 - Exercise of powers of Superintendent and
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