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The following acts of the prisoner shall constitute minor prison offences, namely: - (i) failing to assist in the maintenance of prison discipline; (ii) doing any act calculated to create unnecessary alarm in the minds of other prisoners; (iii) omitting to report the commission of any prison offence; (iv) committing nuisance or mischief of any sort; (v) sending messages surreptitiously by writing or verbally; (vi) eating or apportioning any food not assigned to him or taking from or adding to the portions assigned to another prisoner, disobeying any order as to the issue and distribution of food and drink; (vii) being idle, careless at work, contumaciously refusing to work, malingering, disturbing other prisoners at work, or in barracks; (viii) performing any portion of the task allotted to another prisoner or obtaining unauthorized assistance of another prisoner in the performance of one’s task.; (ix) apportioning to any prisoner any part of the task to be performed by him; (x) spitting, urinating in areas other than specified, soiling or befouling any place or article; (xi) failing to observe cleanliness especially in common areas like toilets etc.; (xii) loitering or lingering, leaving the appointed area, ward, place in the file or workgroup without permission; (xiii) omitting or refusing to keep clean his clothing, blankets, bedding or disobeying any orders as to the arrangement or disposition of such articles. Damaging the trees and vegetables in the garden of the prison or maltreating the prison cattle; (xiv) omitting or refusing to wear the clothing given to him or exchanging any portion of it for the clothing of other prisoners or losing, discarding, damaging, or altering any part of it; (xv) removing, defacing, or altering any distinctive number, mark or badge attached to, or worn on, the clothing or person; (xvi) smoking at a place, or at a time, other than specified; (xvii) failing to report on time and in such manner as prescribed under the rules, at the time of lockup and lockout. Major prison offences.