Section 137
Imprisonment and Detention Rules
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister may make rules (hereinafter referred to as “Imprisonment and Detention Rules”)
with respect to all or any of the following matters, that is to say:
(a)
the places in which and the establishments or forms of custody (whether service or not) in which persons may be required to serve the whole or any part of service sentences of imprisonment and detention passed on them;
(b)
the committal of persons under service sentences of imprisonment or detention to the appropriate establishment or form of custody, their removal from one country or place to another and from one establishment or form of custody to another and their release on the coming to an end of any term of imprisonment or detention;
(c)
the provision, classification, regulation and management of service establishments;
(d)
the classification, treatment, employment, discipline and control of persons serving service sentences of imprisonment or detention in service establishments or otherwise in service custody;
(e)
the temporary release on compassionate grounds of persons serving such sentences in such establishments or custody as aforesaid, the cases in which, periods for which
126 Laws of Malaysia ACT 77
and conditions subject to which they may be allowed out of any such establishment or custody and the remission of part of any such sentence for good conduct and industry;
(f)
the appointment, powers and duties of inspectors, visitors and officers in charge of persons serving sentences of imprisonment or detention:
Provided that such rules shall not authorize the infliction of corporal punishment.
(2)
The Minister may as respects any area in which persons subject to service law under this Act are on active service delegate his power to make Imprisonment and Detention Rules to the officer commanding the command within which those persons are serving, subject to such restrictions, reservations, exceptions and conditions as the Minister may think fit.