Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Government may make rules consistent with this Act '[either prospectively or retrospectively] (1) determining the classification of prison-offences into serious and minor offences. (2) Fixing the punishments admissible under this Act, which shall be awardable for commission of prison-offences or classes thereof. (3) declaring the circumstances in which acts constituting both a prison-offence and an offence under the Penal Code for the time being in force may or may not be dealt with as a prison-offence, (4) for the award of marks and the shortening of sentences, (5) regulating the use of arms against any prisoner or body of prisoners in the case of an outbreak or attempt to escape, (6) defining the circumstances and regulating the conditions under which prisoners in danger of death may be released, (7) regulating the transfer from one prison to another of prisoners whose term of imprisonment is about to expire, (8) for the classification of prisoners, and description and construction of wards, cells and other places of detention, (9) for the regulation by numbers length or character of sentences or otherwise, of the prisoners to be confined in each class of prisons, (10) for the government of prisons, and for the appointment, guidance, control, punishment and dismissal of all officers appointed under this Act, (11) as to the food, bedding and clothing of criminal prisoners and of civil prisoners maintained otherwise than at their own cost, (12) for the employment, instruction and control of convicts within and without prisons, (13) for defining articles the introduction or removal of which into or out of prisons without due authority is prohibited, (14) for classifying and prescribing the forms of labour and regulating the periods of rest from labour, (15) for regulating the disposal of the proceeds of the employment of prisoners, (16) for the classification and separation of prisoners, (17) for regulating the confinement of convicted criminal prisoners under Section 28, (18) for the preparation and maintenance of history-tickets, (19) for the selection, and appointment of prisoners as officers of prisons, (20) for rewards for good conduct, (21) for the treatment, transfer and disposal of criminal lunatics or recovered criminal lunatics confined in prisons, (22) for regulating the transmission of appeals and petitions from prisoners and their communications with their friends, (23) for the appointment and guidance of visitors of prisons, (24) for extending any or all of the provisions of this Act and of the rules thereunder to subsidiary jails or special places of confinement appointed under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure for the time being in force and to the officer employed and the prisoners confined therein, and, (25) generally, in regard to the admission, custody employment, dieting, treatment and release of prisoners, and for other purposes consistent with this Act. Inserted by Act 10 of 1976.