PRISON ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953

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PRISON ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 13



13.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act the Ministry may make rules to be
styled "prison rules" for

(a)the administration, regulation and management of prisons;

(b)the classification, segregation, accommodation, maintenance, clothing,
treatment, training, employment, discipline, punishment and control of persons
required to be detained in prisons;

(c)the temporary release, with or without suspension of the currency of the
sentence, of persons serving a sentence of imprisonment; ... [, or a person
ordered to be detained in a young offenders centre];

(d)the photographing, measuring [, palm-printing] and finger-printing of
persons sentenced to be detained in prisons;

(e)the conduct, duty and discipline of the staff of prisons;

(f)the functions of boards of visitors; and

(g)the functions of visiting committees;

(2) Prison rules shall make provision for ensuring that a person who is
charged with any offence under the rules shall be given an opportunity of
answering the charge.

(3) Prison rules may provide for the training of particular classes of
persons.

(4) Prison rules shall provide for the special treatment of the following
persons while required to be detained in a prison, that is to say

Paras.(a)(b) rep. by 1968 c.29 (NI) s.35(3) sch.5; para.(c) rep. by 1980 NI10
art.4(3) sch.3; para.(d) rep. by 1968 c.29 (NI) s.35(3) sch.5

(e)any... person detained in a prison, not being a person serving a sentence
or a person imprisoned in default of payment of a sum adjudged to be paid by
him on his conviction [or a person committed to custody on his conviction].

Subs.(5) rep. by 1968 c.29 (NI) s.35(3) sch.5

(6) Prison rules shall provide that the medical officer of a prison shall not
apply any painful tests to a prisoner for the purposes of detecting
malingering or for any other purpose except with the permission of the board
of visitors or the visiting committee.

(7) Prison rules may make provision whereby a person serving such a sentence
or for such a term as may be prescribed by the rules, may, on the ground of
his... good conduct, be granted remission of such part of that sentence or
term as may be so prescribed; and on the discharge of a person from a prison
in pursuance of any such remission his sentence shall expire.

(8) A copy of the relevant prison rules shall be posted in a conspicuous place
in every prison.

(9) The Ministry may by prison rules make provision for any other matter which
appears to the Ministry to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of
carrying this Act into effect.

S.14 rep. by 1968 c.29 (NI) s.35(3) sch.5; 1976 NI4 art.19(3) sch.3

Place of confinement of prisoners.

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PRISON ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 13