Prisons (Amendment) Regulations 2008

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 12 Sep 2008

No. S 455

Prisons Act

(Chapter 247)

Prisons (Amendment) Regulations 2008

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 84 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 (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and shall come into operation on 15th September 2008.

New Part VIIA

2. The Prisons Regulations (Rg 2) are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 73, the following Part:

“PART VIIA

INSTITUTIONAL DISCIPLINE REVIEW COMMITTEE

Institutional Discipline Review Committee

73A.—(1) The Minister may appoint one or more committees, each to be known as an Institutional Discipline Review Committee, to render an opinion on whether, in any case where a Superintendent has ordered a prisoner to undergo corporal punishment under section 71(1)(a) of the Act, the punishment imposed on the prisoner is excessive.

(2) An Institutional Discipline Review Committee shall consist of —

(a)	a Chairman; and
(b)	not more than 3 other members.

(3) Each Chairman or member of an Institutional Discipline Review Committee shall hold office for such period, not exceeding 2 years, as the Minister may determine and shall be eligible for re-appointment.

(4) A Chairman or member of an Institutional Discipline Review Committee may resign from his appointment at any time by giving notice in writing to the Minister.

(5) The Minister may at any time revoke the appointment of any Chairman or member, or fill any vacancy in the membership, of an Institutional Discipline Review Committee.

(6) A Chairman of an Institutional Discipline Review Committee shall preside at every meeting of the Committee at which he is present, and in his absence, the remaining members of the Committee shall elect one of their number to preside at the meeting of the Committee.

(7) An Institutional Discipline Review Committee shall sit in private and shall not be required to interview any prisoner or other person.

(8) Each Institutional Discipline Review Committee may determine its own procedure.

(9) The Minister may give directions to an Institutional Discipline Review Committee as to the matters to be taken into account by the Committee when discharging its functions.

Referral to Institutional Discipline Review Committee

73B.—(1) In any case where a Superintendent has ordered a prisoner to undergo corporal punishment under section 71(1)(a) of the Act, the Director shall, upon being notified by the Superintendent under section 71(2) of the Act of the facts of the case and the punishment imposed on the prisoner, refer the case to an Institutional Discipline Review Committee for its opinion on whether the punishment imposed on the prisoner is excessive.

(2) The Institutional Discipline Review Committee shall render its opinion to the Director within such period as the Minister may determine after the case has been referred to the Committee.

(3) The Director may, but shall not be required to, have regard to the opinion of the Institutional Discipline Review Committee when performing his functions and duties under section 71(3) of the Act.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 408/2003; S 7/2004; S 609/2004]

Made this 10th day of September 2008.

BENNY LIM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA (RH) 1/08-Vol. 1; AG/LEG/SL/247/2002/1 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 84(3) of the Prisons Act).

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