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(1) For every prison, the State Government shall appoint or· provide for appointment of a Superintendent, one or more Medical Officers, a Jailer:(one or more Jailers for a Central Jail), a Welfare Officer, two or more Deputy Jailers, a Chief Head Warder (except for a sub-Jail), one or more Chief Head Warders for a Central Jail, one .or more Pharmacists and such numbers of Head Warders, Warders, voc.ational · instructors, educational instru·ctors, physicar instructor with' yoga instructor, for male arid '. . female, ministerial officers, nurses and such other officers as may be considered necessary : Provided that in case of a· Sub-Jail located at a district headquarter or a sub-divfsional headquarter, -- (a) the ·-District Magistrate concerned or the Sub- Divisional Magistrate, as the case may be, shall be the ex- officio Superintendent of the Sub-Jail or he may entrust an Executive Magistrate to act as the Superintendent of the said Sub-Jail; and (b) the Joint c;>irector of Health Services concerned or the Sub-division~! Medical and Health 9f,ficer, as the case may be, shall be the ex-officio Medical Officer of the Sub-Jail or he may entrust a Medical and Health Officer to act as the Medical Officer of the said Sub-Jail : -. ·.; THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 30, 2013 Functions of . Superinten- dent Functions of Medical Officer Provided that the State Government may not provide for appointment of ' Jailer for a ·Sub-Jail, in which case the senior most Deputy Jailer of the Sub-Jail shall be deemed to be the Jailer for the purposes of this Act. (2) The State Government shall also appoint such numbers of (i) Psychologist or Psychoanalyst and (ii) Psychiatrist as may be deemed necessary for .th_e prisons of the State.