Punishment by Superintendent for minor prison offences
70.—(1) The Superintendent may punish any prisoner found after due inquiry to be guilty of a minor prison offence as specified in section 72 by ordering him to undergo one or more of the following punishments:
(a)
confinement in a punishment cell for a term not exceeding 7 days;
(b)
forfeiture of remission not exceeding such amount as may be prescribed;
(c)
reduction in grade or postponement of promotion for such period as may be prescribed;
(d)
a written warning;
(e)
in the case of a prisoner subject to a home detention order under section 52, extension of the hours to which the prisoner is required to remain indoors under the conditions of the order.
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(2) The Superintendent shall enter in a register to be open to the inspection of the Visiting Justices a record of the punishments imposed by him upon prisoners, showing, in respect of each prisoner punished, the name of the prisoner, the nature of his offence and the extent of his punishment.