Prisons (Lock-ups) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

No. S 186

Prisons Act

(Chapter 247)

Prisons (Lock-ups) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4(3) of the Prisons Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Prisons (Lock-ups) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2000.

Amendment of regulation 7

2. Regulation 7 of the Prisons (Lock-ups) Regulations (Rg 1) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the words “occupants of cells” in the 4th line and substituting the word “prisoners”.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 8

3. Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Meal times

8. Three meals a day shall be supplied to prisoners on the scales in use in prisons.”.

Deletion and substitution of regulations 11 to 14

4. Regulations 11 to 14 of the principal Regulations are deleted and the following regulations substituted therefor:

“Lock-up Register

11. A Lock-up Register shall be kept in respect of each prisoner in the form specified in the First Schedule.

Change over of officers in charge

12.—(1) Before an officer in immediate charge of a lock-up is relieved, he shall enter in a police station diary the number of prisoners who ought to be in the lock-up.

(2) The relieving officer shall, after checking the prisoners, certify in the police station diary the number of prisoners taken over.

(3) The police station diary shall be similarly balanced when meals are served to the prisoners.

(4) The police station diary shall be in the form specified in the Second Schedule.

Visiting book

13.—(1) All officers making supervisory checks on the lock-ups shall sign in an officers’ visiting book and record therein their observations and the number of prisoners present during their checks.

(2) All other officers and persons visiting the lock-ups shall record their particulars and sign in the police station diary.

Movement of prisoners

14.—(1) The movement of prisoners in every lock-up shall be recorded in a Prisoners’ Movement Board.

(2) The Prisoners’ Movement Board shall be in the form specified in the Third Schedule.”.

Amendment of regulation 16

5. Regulation 16 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “and prisoners arrested on warrants in civil cases who cannot forthwith be removed to civil prison shall not be locked up with prisoners arrested for criminal offences”.

Amendment of regulation 17

6. Regulation 17 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “The arrival of female prisoners shall always be reported to the Director as soon as possible.” in the 1st and 2nd lines; and
(b)	by deleting the word “Director” in the last line and substituting the words “Chief Rehabilitation Officer”.

Amendment of regulation 26

7. Regulation 26 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “subordinate police office or constable” and substituting the words “police officer”.

Amendment of regulation 27

8. Regulation 27 of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the word “No”, the word “police”.

Deletion of regulation 28

9. Regulation 28 of the principal Regulations is deleted.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 30

10. Regulation 30 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Examination by medical officer

30.—(1) A medical officer shall separately examine every prisoner as early as possible on the day of his reception and shall record his state of health and give special attention to the mental condition of the prisoner.

(2) If a prisoner is received too late for him to be examined on the day of his reception, he shall be examined as soon as possible on the next day.

(3) If any prisoner is found to have any infectious disease or to be in a verminous condition, the medical officer shall report the matter to the Chief Rehabilitation Officer and steps shall be taken to treat the condition and as far as possible to prevent the disease from spreading to other prisoners.”.

Amendment of regulation 40

11. Regulation 40 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the word “gang” in paragraph (i) and substituting the word “group”.

New First, Second and Third Schedules

12. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 50, the following Schedules:

“FIRST SCHEDULE

Regulation 11

lock-up register

SECOND SCHEDULE

Regulations 12 and 13

police station diary

THIRD SCHEDULE

Regulation 14

prisoners’ movement board

”.

Made this 29th day of March 2000.

PETER HO

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/044-3; AG/LEG/SL/247/97/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 65(3) of the Prisons Act)

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