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(1) All prisoners sentenced to labour shall be eligible for the grant of special remission at the rate of one day for every additional day’s task performed, the amount of work being calculated at the end of each calendar month. For this rule, the prisoners sentenced to labour shall include prisoners sentenced to simple imprisonment who voluntarily elect to labour. Illustration: - Suppose a convict performs his full task of weaving, that is 12 meters of cloth daily. His monthly output should be 288 meters a month (including 1/2 task on weekly parade days). If he weaves 300 meters, he will receive additional special remission of one day, and if he weaves 312 meters, two days, and so on. (2) In the case of two or more men employed on the same work with joint out-turn, the amount earned may be divided equally amongst them or in such proportion as the Superintendent considers equitable. (3) Convicts employed on un-tasked as well as the task of labour in prison shall be eligible for the grant of remission at the specified rates. The Superintendent may grant remission to a prisoner on un-tasked labour, if he is satisfied that the industry and exertion of the prisoner have been such as would have entitled him to the concession if he had been employed on the form of labour which is susceptible of being tasked. (4) To ensure that the system of grant of special remission operates with as little unevenness as possible, the Superintendent may fix high minimum out-turn of work for professional or trained prisoners employed on tasked labour. (5) The time employed on work shall ordinarily not exceed 08 hours daily as required by provisions of the Act. (6) The extra work done must be voluntary, and the grant of special remission will be conditional on its being up to the requisite standard in quality required by the Superintendent. (7) The Superintendent must arrange for an adequate supply of materials for extra task work. No limit is to be placed on the amount of extra work which a convict, passed as fit for hard labour, but may be subject to the time limit of hours of employment. (8) A convict, if passed for medium or light labour, is to be rewarded for the extra work done over and above the task laid down for these classes of labour, respectively, at the rate of one day’s special remission for every additional day’s work reckoned on the labourious task of his class of labour. (9) No convict passed for medium or light labour shall be permitted to do extra work without the sanction of the Medical officer recorded in his history-ticket or to exceed in the total days’ work- a hard labour task in the case of medium labour man, or a medium labour task in the case of a light labour man. (10) Any convict suspected of being unfit at any time to do extra work shall be brought to the notice of the medical officer with a view to him being stopped from doing extra work. (11) The remission to be allowed to a convict whether on tasked or untasked labour should not exceed the limits prescribed in these rules. Conditions of award of gratuity and minimum wages for industry.