Bare ActsThe PRISONS ACT, 1894

Section 48

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(1) The Superintendent shall have power to award any of the punishments enumerated in the two last foregoing sections, subject, in the case of separate confinement for a period exceeding one month, to the previous confirmation of the Inspector General. (2) No officer subordinate to the Superintendent shall have power to award any punishment whatever. ¶ [“48A. If any prisoner fails without sufficient cause to observe any of the conditions on which his sentence was suspended or remitted or furlough **[or release on parole] was granted to him, he shall be deemed to have committed a prison offence and the Superintendent may, after obtaining his explanation, punish such offence by (1) a formal warning as provided in clause (1) of Section 46 ; (2) reduction in grade if such prisoner has been appointed an officer of prison; (3) loss of privileges admissible under the remission or furlough **[or parole] system; or (4) loss of such other privileges as the State Government may by a general or special order directed”.

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