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PRISON ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 9

Religious ministrations.

9.(1) Where in any prison the number of prisoners who belong to any religious
denomination is such as in the opinion of the Minister to require the
appointment of a minister of that denomination, the Minister may appoint such
a minister to that prison.

(2) The Ministry may allow a minister of any denomination to visit prisoners
of his denomination in a prison to which no minister of that denomination has
been appointed under this section.

(3) No prisoner shall be visited against his will by a minister.

(4) Every prisoner shall be allowed, in accordance with the arrangements in
force in the prison in which he is confined, to attend religious services held
therein or to be visited by a minister of his denomination appointed to or
permitted to visit prisoners under this section.

(5) The governor of a prison shall on the reception of each prisoner record
the religious denomination, if any, to which the prisoner declared himself to
belong and shall give to any minister who is appointed or permitted to visit
prisoners under this section a list of the prisoners who have declared
themselves to belong to his denomination; and a minister shall not be
permitted to visit any other prisoners except with the permission of the
governor at the special request of the prisoner concerned.

(6) There may be paid to ministers appointed to or permitted to visit prisons
under this section such remuneration as the Ministry with the approval of the
Ministry of Finance may think reasonable.

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