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Prison Act 1995 · Updated to 12 Dec 2025 · Part V · Employment and Prison Discipline

50. Punishment of prison offences by Officer in Charge

(1)

An Officer in Charge, or in his absence, the next senior prison officer who has been authorized by the Officer in Charge, may punish a prisoner found after due inquiry to be guilty of a minor prison offence by ordering him to undergo one or more of the following punishments:

(a)

reprimand;

(b)

reduction in stage;

(c)

postponement of promotion in stage;

(d)

forfeiture of privileges;

(e)

removal from the earnings scheme;

(f)

reduction in earnings grade;

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(g)

forfeiture of remission not exceeding such amount as may be prescribed;

(h)

separate confinement in a cell on the prescribed restricted diet for a term not exceeding such period as may be prescribed.

(2)

The punishments referred to in paragraphs (1)(b) to (f) shall be for such period as may be prescribed.

(3)

Where an Officer in Charge, or in his absence, the next senior prison officer who has been authorized by the Officer in Charge, finds a prisoner after due inquiry to be guilty of an aggravated prison offence, the Officer in Charge, or in his absence, the next senior prison officer who has been authorized by the Officer in Charge, may punish the prisoner by ordering him to undergo one or more of the punishments listed in subsection (1) or in addition to or in lieu thereof, impose corporal punishment with a rattan, not exceeding such number of strokes as may be prescribed:

Provided that any corporal punishment ordered shall be subject to confirmation by the Minister.

Terms defined in s 2

aggravated prison offence
Defined · s 2
“minor prison offence” and “aggravated prison offence” mean an offence committed by a prisoner against prison discipline and so specified in regulations made under this Act; *
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Minister
Defined · s 2
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for prisons;
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minor prison offence
Defined · s 2
“minor prison offence” and “aggravated prison offence” mean an offence committed by a prisoner against prison discipline and so specified in regulations made under this Act; *
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Officer in Charge
Defined · s 2
“Officer in Charge” means a prison officer not below the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Prison who is in charge of a prison; *NOTE—All references to the Director General of Prison and Deputy Director General of Prison in any written law or in any instrument, deed, title, document, bond, agreement and working arrangement subsisting immediately before the date of the coming into operation of this Prison Act (Amendment) 2008, shall, on the date of the coming into operation…
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prescribed
Defined · s 2
“prescribed” means prescribed by or under this Act and where the authority is not specified, by the Minister;
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prescribed restricted diet
Defined · s 2
“prescribed restricted diet” means a scale of diet as may be prescribed from time to time for the purposes of section 50;
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prison
Defined · s 2
“prison” means any house, building, enclosure or place, or any part thereof, declared to be a prison under section 3 and shall include the grounds and buildings within the prison enclosure and also the airing grounds or other grounds or buildings belonging or attached thereto and used by prisoners;
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prison officer
Defined · s 2
“prison officer” means a uniformed staff of the prison department from and including the rank of Commissioner General of Prison down to and including a Warder;
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prisoner
Defined · s 2
“prisoner” means a person, whether convicted or not, under confinement in a prison and in relation to a convicted prisoner, includes a prisoner released on parole;
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Offences

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Prison Officers’ Reward Fund

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Part VIII

General

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