84.—(1) The Minister may make all regulations that 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 limiting subsection (1), the 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, despite 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;
(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 early discharge of prisoners who become entitled to release on a date which falls on a Sunday or public holiday;
(k)
the release of prisoners on remission orders or on external placement orders and the due administration of such orders;
(l)
the classification of breaches of the mandatory aftercare conditions of remission orders to be serious breaches and minor breaches;
(la)
without affecting paragraph (ka), the establishment of an advisory committee for the purpose of advising the Commissioner on the suitability of a prisoner to be released for employment preparation under Part 6B and its constitution, functions and procedures;
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(lb)
the release of prisoners on employment preparation orders and the due administration of such orders, including the requirement for such prisoners to retain a proportion of the wages earned by the prisoners as compulsory savings;
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(lc)
in relation to the release of prisoners on external placement orders, home detention orders and employment preparation orders, the requirement for such prisoners to bear the costs of any prescribed expenses incurred by them when released on such orders;
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(m)
the proceedings and visits of the Visiting Justices;
(n)
the establishment of committees, however named, of an advisory nature, for the purposes of this Act;
(o)
without limiting paragraph (n), the establishment of an advisory committee for the purpose of advising the Commissioner on the suitability of a prisoner to be released for home detention under Part 6 and its constitution, functions and procedures;
(p)
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 must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.
(4) Where any regulations are presented to Parliament under subsection (3), if —
(a)
notice of a motion is given for a sitting day of Parliament before the first available sitting day after 3 months from the date when the regulations are so presented; and
(b)
a resolution is passed pursuant to the motion to annul the regulations or any part of the regulations from a specified date,
the regulations or such part of the regulations (as the case may be) become void from that date, but without affecting the validity of anything previously done thereunder, or the making of new regulations.