Section 49
of Prisons Act
Section 49
An Officer-in-Charge, if of or above the rank of Chief Officer, may punish any prisoner found after due inquiry to be guilty of an aggravated prison offence, by ordering him to undergo one or more of the following punishments —
(a)
corporal punishment with a rattan not exceeding such amount as may be prescribed;
(b)
confinement in a cell on the prescribed restricted diet for a term not exceeding such period as may be prescribed;
(c)
forfeiture of remission not exceeding such amount as may be prescribed;
(d)
reduction in stage, or forfeiture of privileges, or postponement of promotion in stage, or removal from the earnings scheme, or reduction in earnings grade, for such period as may be prescribed:
Provided that —
Prisons
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(i)
corporal punishment, whether inflicted under this section or under section 50, shall be inflicted in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed;
(ii)
corporal punishment shall not be inflicted save for mutiny or for offences involving personal violence to prison officers, other prisoners, any other person;
(iii)
corporal punishment shall not in any case be inflicted on a person under sentence of death, upon males over 50 years of age or upon females; and
(iv)
no order for the infliction of corporal punishment shall be carried out unless it has been confirmed by the
Minister.