Section 8
Whenever it appears to the Director that —
of Prisons Act
Prisons
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(a)
the number of prisoners in any prison is greater than can be conveniently kept therein and it is not convenient to transfer the excess number to some other prison; or
(b)
by reason of an outbreak within any prison of a disease or diseases, or for any other reason, it is desirable to provide for the temporary shelter and safe custody of any prisoner, such provision shall be made, as the Director may direct, for the shelter and safe custody in temporary prisons of so many of the prisoners as cannot be conveniently or safely kept in such prison, and every such temporary prison shall be a prison for the purposes of this Act:
Provided that when such disease or diseases or such other reason has or have ceased, any prisoner so removed from any prison shall be taken back to the prison whence they were removed, if still liable to be confined therein.
Administration of prison officers and prisons.