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No prisoner shall, without the special sanction of the Director General, be transferred from one prison to another while any epidemic disease is prevalent in either the transferring or receiving prison or until the disease has disappeared for at least two weeks. Special precautions shall be taken to guard against infection when a transfer has to be made along a route where any disease of an infectious nature is known to prevail. Prisoners not to be transferred unless they can be received.