Appointment of lock-ups at police stations and court houses as places of detention
4.—(1)  The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint the lock‑ups at any police stations and court houses to be places for the confinement of persons awaiting trial, remanded, or sentenced to any term of imprisonment, not exceeding one month, that may be specified in each case.
(2)  A lock-up appointed as a place of confinement under subsection (1) is not to be deemed to be a prison for the purposes of this Act or of the Registration of Criminals Act 1949 and regulations made under section 84 do not apply thereto, but every such lock‑up is deemed to be a prison for the purposes of sections 313 to 332 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.
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(3)  The Minister may make regulations with regard to lock‑ups appointed under subsection (1) to provide for all or any of the following matters:
(a)the inspection and management of the lock‑ups and the officers to be in charge thereof;
(b)the employment of persons confined in such lock‑ups;
(c)the diets to be supplied to such persons;
(d)the maintenance of discipline.