Prisons Act 1933 - Singapore Statutes Online

Prisons Act 1933

2020 REVISED EDITION

This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021

An Act relating to prisons.

[18 August 1933]

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act is the Prisons Act 1933.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“basic condition”, in relation to a remission order, means the basic condition specified in section 50S;

“Cluster Commander” means a Cluster Commander of Prisons appointed under section 20;

“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Prisons appointed under section 20;

“Corporation” means the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises established under the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises Act 1975;

“default sentence” means a sentence of a term of imprisonment imposed on a person in default of the person paying a fine ordered to be paid by a court;

“Deputy Commissioner” means the Deputy Commissioner of Prisons appointed under section 20;

“Divisional Director” means a Divisional Director of Prisons appointed under section 20;

“external placement order” means an order made under section 59B in respect of a prisoner authorising the serving by the prisoner of his or her sentence in such place or places, outside the limits of any prison, as may be specified in the order;

“juvenile” means any person under the age of 16 years, whether convicted or not, under detention in any prison;

“lock-up prisoner” means any person, whether convicted or not, who is confined in a lock‑up, or who is transported to, or from, a lock‑up;

“medical officer” means a medical officer appointed under section 25;

“prison” means any house, building, enclosure or place, or any part thereof, declared to be a prison or reformative training centre under section 3, and includes the grounds and buildings within the prison enclosure and also the airing grounds or other grounds or buildings belonging or attached thereto and used by prisoners;

“prison officer” means any prison officer appointed under section 20 and includes the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner and any Superintendent;

“prisoner” means any person, whether convicted or not, under detention in any prison or reformative training centre or subject to an external placement order or a home detention order, but does not include a person released and at large under a remission order;

“registered medical practitioner” means a person registered under the Medical Registration Act 1997;

“remission order” means a remission order made under any provision in Part 5B;

“Superintendent” means a Superintendent of Prisons appointed under section 20;

“unlawfully at large”, in relation to a person released under a remission order, means a person who fails to submit himself or herself to custody or detention after being required to do so under any written law, or who escapes from such custody or detention;

“Visiting Justice” means a member of the Board of Visiting Justices appointed under section 79.

[33/2004; 15/2010; 1/2014]

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