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(1) The following classes of fetters may be used in prison, namely: – (a) link-fetters composed of a chain and ankle-rings. The total weight of such fetters including the ankle-rings shall not exceed 1.4 kilograms and the chain shall be not less than two feet in length; (b) bar-fetters composed of two bars joined together by a link and attached to ankle- rings. The total weight of such fetters including the ankle-rings, shall not exceed 2.3 kilograms and each bar shall be not less than twenty inches in length; (c) cross-bar fetters composed of a single bar to keep the legs apart and of ankle- rings, the total weight of such fetters, including ankle-rings, shall not exceed 1.1 kilograms. The length of the bar shall not exceed sixteen inches in the case of men who are not less than five feet six inches in height, or fourteen inches in the case of men below this height. (2) The maximum period for which fetters may be continuously imposed shall be as follows, namely:- (a) in case of linked fetters, three months; (b) in case of bar-fetters, three months; and (c) in case of cross-bar-fetters, ten days. (3) A period of at least ten days must elapse after fetters of any kind have been imposed as a punishment for a prison offence, before they again be imposed as a punishment for another prison offence, whether of the same kind or not. NOTE. - Fetters shall be removed when a convict wearing the same is to be produced in court. 1230 HARYANA GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA.), DEC. 30, 2022 (PAUS. 9, 1944 SAKA) Rights of a prisoner. CHAPTER 9 OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENTS