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(1)The Government may make rules generally to carry out the Provisions of this Act. (2)In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:- (i) Defining the acts which shall constitute prison offences; (ii) determining the classification of prison offences into serious and minor offences; :23: (iii) fixing the punishments admissible under this Act which shall be awardable for commission of prison offences or classes thereof; (iv) declaring the circumstances in which acts constituting both a prison offence and an offence under the Indian Penal code 1860(45 of 1860) may or may not be dealt with as a prison offence; (v) for the award of marks and the shortening of sentence; (vi) regulating the use of force against any prisoner or body of prisoners in the case of a riot, outbreak or attempt to escape; (vii) defining the circumstances and regulating the conditions under which prisoners in danger of death may be released; (viii)for the classification of prisons, and description and construction of wards, cells and other places of detention; (ix) for the regulation by numbers, length of character of sentence, or otherwise, of the prisoners to be confined in each class of prisons; (x) for the governance of prisons and for the appointment of officer under this Act; (xi) as to the food, bedding and clothing of criminal prisoners and of civil prisoners maintained otherwise than at their own cost; (xii) for the employment, instruction and control of convicts within or without prisons; (xiii)for defining articles the introduction or removal of which into or out of prisons without due authority is prohibited; (xv) for regulating the disposal of the proceeds of the employment of prisoners; (xvi)for adopting measures to bring about coordination between various departments of the Government for upkeep, maintenance, welfare of the prisoners and for dealing with contingencies; (xvii)for the classification and the separation of prisoner; (xviii)for regulating the confinement of convicted criminal prisoners under Section 29; (xix)for the preparation and maintenance of history tickets; (xx) for rewards for good conduct; (xxi)for regulating the transfer of prisoners whose term of imprisonment is about to expire subject, however, to the consent of the Government or any other State or Union Territory to which a prisoner is to be transferred; (xxii)for the treatment, transfer and disposal of mentally ill criminals confined in prisons; (xxiii)for regulating the transmission of appeals and petitions from prisoners and the communication with their friends; (xxiv)for the appointment and guidance of visitors of prisons; (xxv)for extending any or all of the provisions of this Act and of the Rules thereunder to the subsidiary prisons or special places of confinement appointed under Section 417 of the Code of Criminal :24: Procedure, 1973,(2 of 1974) and to the officers employed, and the prisoners confined, therein; (xxvi)in regard to the admission, custody, employment, diet, treatment and release of prisoners; (xxvii)for periodic review of cases of criminal prisoners detained in prison for more than one year and in cases when the detention is more than half of the maximum punishment for the offence; (xxviii)for providing legal aid to prisoners; (xxix)for recruitment, training, conduct punishment and appeal relating to the officials of the prisons; (xxx)for grant of parole, furlough and leave to prisoners; (xxxi)for the temporary release, suspension and remission of sentence of prisoners; and (xxxii)generally for carrying into effect the purpose of this Act (3) Every rule made by the Government under this Act Shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the House of the Legislative Assembly of Delhi while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive session, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive session aforesaid, the House agrees in making any modification in the rule or the House agrees that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effects as the case may be, so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule. Exhibition of copies of Rules