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Formal Consolidation |  2000 RevEd
Regulations
84.—(1)  The Minister may make all such regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as are necessary for the good management and government of prisons and reformative training centres or for carrying out the objects of this Act.
(2)  In particular and without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), such regulations may prescribe for all or any of the following purposes or matters:
(a)the conditions of service and the powers, conduct and duties of the officers of prisons;
(b)the medical examination, measuring, photographing and taking of fingerprint impressions or other records of persons confined in any prison or otherwise detained in custody, including detailed personal statistics and histories, and for requiring full and truthful answers to all questions put to such persons with the object of obtaining such statistics and histories;
(c)the persons, if any, to whom such measurements, photographs, fingerprint impressions or other records are to be sent or supplied;
(d)the employment, diets, classification, safe custody, separation, treatment and discipline of prisoners;
(e)the kind of labour to be exacted at the different stages of their imprisonment with the manner and place of exacting the same;
(f)the remission of sentences to be allowed to prisoners who duly comply with the regulations to which they are subjected, and the conditions on which such remissions are to be made;
(g)the disposal of the products of the labour of prisoners;
(h)the establishment of prisoners aid associations and societies and for the subsidising of their work and the utilising of their services in connection with prisoners discharged on probation and convicted prisoners whose sentences have expired;
(i)the supply of money, food, clothing or means of travelling to prisoners on their discharge;
(j)the administration of the Prison Officers Reward Fund;
(k)the proceedings and visits of the Visiting Justices;
(l)the establishment of an advisory committee for the purpose of advising the Director on the suitability of a prisoner to be released for home detention under Part VI and its constitution, functions and procedures;
(m)any other matter which under this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed.
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(3)  All regulations made under this section shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.
(4)  If a resolution is passed pursuant to a motion notice whereof has been given for a sitting day not later than the first available sitting day of Parliament next after the expiry of 3 months from the date when the regulations are so presented annulling the regulations or any part thereof as from a specified date, the regulations or such part thereof, as the case may be, shall thereupon become void as from that date but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.
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Informal Consolidation | Amended Act 33 of 2004
Regulations
84.—(1)  The Minister may make all such regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as are necessary for the good management and government of prisons and reformative training centres or for carrying out the objects of this Act.
(2)  In particular and without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), such regulations may prescribe for all or any of the following purposes or matters:
(a)the conditions of service and the powers, conduct and duties of the officers of prisons;
(b)the medical examination, measuring, photographing and taking of fingerprint impressions or other records of persons confined in any prison or otherwise detained in custody, including detailed personal statistics and histories, and for requiring full and truthful answers to all questions put to such persons with the object of obtaining such statistics and histories;
(c)the persons, if any, to whom such measurements, photographs, fingerprint impressions or other records are to be sent or supplied;
(d)the employment, diets, classification, safe custody, separation, treatment and discipline of prisoners;
(e)the kind of labour to be exacted at the different stages of their imprisonment with the manner and place of exacting the same;
(f)the granting, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law, of remission in respect of sentences of imprisonment and imprisonment in default of payment of fine to prisoners who duly comply with the regulations that apply to them and with the conditions on which such remissions are to be made;
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(g)the disposal of the products of the labour of prisoners;
(h)the establishment of prisoners aid associations and societies and for the subsidising of their work and the utilising of their services in connection with prisoners discharged on probation and convicted prisoners whose sentences have expired;
(i)the supply of money, food, clothing or means of travelling to prisoners on their discharge;
(k)the proceedings and visits of the Visiting Justices;
(l)the establishment of an advisory committee for the purpose of advising the Director on the suitability of a prisoner to be released for home detention under Part VI and its constitution, functions and procedures;
(m)any other matter which under this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed.
[8/2000]
(3)  All regulations made under this section shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.
(4)  If a resolution is passed pursuant to a motion notice whereof has been given for a sitting day not later than the first available sitting day of Parliament next after the expiry of 3 months from the date when the regulations are so presented annulling the regulations or any part thereof as from a specified date, the regulations or such part thereof, as the case may be, shall thereupon become void as from that date but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.
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