Defence Act, 1957 (Act No. 44 of 1957)

Schedules

First Schedule

120. State President may establish prisons and detention barracks and make regulations in regard thereto
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(1)The Minister may establish one or more prisons in the Republic to which offenders sentenced to imprisonment under this Code may be committed to serve such sentences, or may direct that offenders so sentenced be committed to any prison established or deemed to have been established under the Prisons Act, 1959 (Act No. 8 of 1959).

 

(2)The Minister may make establish one or more detention barracks in the Republic to which offenders sentenced to detention may be committed to serve such sentences, or may direct that certain premises or portions of premises be deemed to be detention barracks to which such offenders may be so committed.

 

(3)The Minister may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, relating to all or any of the following matters in regard to any prisons or detention barracks established or premises or portions thereof deemed to be detention barracks under this section, namely—
(a)supervision and management;
(b)the admission, safe custody and release of offenders and inmates;
(c)discipline of the staff, offenders and inmates;
(d)the release of offenders on parole or the remission of sentences for good behaviour;
(e)the labour or compulsory labour that may be performed by offenders;
(f)the punishments, not including corporal punishment, which may be imposed for offences in such establishments and the persons by whom and the manner in which such punishments may be imposed or executed;
(g)the powers of the officers in charge of such establishment;
(h)the restraint which may be applied to offenders;
(i)visitors;
(j)inspections;
(k)death of offenders and inmates;
(I)the extent to which all or any of the regulations under the Prisons Act, 1959 (Act No. 8 of 1959), may be applied to such prisons;
(m)any matters which he considers necessary or expedient for the purposes for which such prisons or barracks are established or such premises or portions thereof are intended.