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frltrod~J(:tr1H or removal of prohibited articles lnto or from prison and communicate with prisoners. Power to arrest 63 k~I' oH("::ilce: un del' Pubiication Of 64 penalties CHAPTER XV[! BOAFm OF VISITORS 61 ("I) The State Government shall, by notification, constitute a Board of Visitors at District I..evel and also St8te Advisorv Board comprising of Official and 1\lon-0f1ici81 members to monitor correctional work in prison, sug~jesting new avenues leading to the Improvement in the correctional work, going into individual or collective qriev- ances of prisoners and providing redressal in consultation with the prison authorities (2) For this purpose a rule sl1<:tilbe framed in a prescribed manner under U'lis Act. CHf.WTE~~ XVI1i OFFENCES iN F1EU\. Tl0N 'CO PH1S0NS WI-ioev",r, contrary to any rule introduces or removes or attempts by any means whatever to introduco or remove, into or from any prison, or supplies or attempts to supply to any prisoner outside the limits of a prison, any prohibited article, and every officer" of a prison who, contrary to any such rule, knowinqly suffers any such article to be introduced into or removed from any prison, to be possessed by any prisoner, or to be supplied to any prisoner outside the limits of a prison, and whoever, contrary to any SUCil rule, communi cates or attempts to communicate with any prisoner, and whoever abets any offence made punishable by this section, shall all conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment for a term not excesdinq six months, or fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, 01' with both. When any person in tile presence of any officer of a prison, commits any offence spsci- fiecJ in the fOiegoing section, and refuses on demand of such officer to state his name and residence, or Qiv~:s a name or residence wruch such officer knows, .or has reason to beiitNe, to ~)efalse. SUCll olticor may arrest him, and shall without unnecessary delay make 111mOWi (0 a Police Officer, and thereupon suer] Police Officer Sl,211proceed as if the ottenc« had been committed in his presence, Tr'18 Superintendent shall cause to be affixed ill a conspicuous place outside the prison, a notice in English and the Vernacular settino forth tile acts prohibited under section 65 and the penalties incurred by their commission. CH/.l,PTEn XIX PRISON OFFENCES. Prison Off(~nces,