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Internal Security (Detained Persons) Order, 1964
s 29

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Internal Security (Detained Persons) Order, 1964

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3(1) The administration of a place of detention Administration. shall be vested in a Superintendent.
4Every Superintendent is hereby authorised Superintendent and required to keep and detain all detained persons peto detain rsons com-duly co...
5(1) Subject to the orders of the Mentri Besar, Administration the control of officers of place of detention through-ofdoffi1cers f.. an p...
6(1) The Mentri Besar may appoint an Officer-Appointment in-Charge of places of detention for the State of of 0f!icers SI7"/1.3 B. d S' d d...
7Subject to the orders of the Mentri Besar, Dutie᪽of the Superintendent shall supervise and control all Superintendent, matters in connectio...
9All officers shall be engaged in accordance with the conditions of contract applicable to them at the date of their engagement.
10A subordinate officer may be promoted by the Superintendent.
11A Superintendent or Deputy Superintendent and a subordinate officer may be interdicted, sus pended or dismissed in accordance with General...
12Every officer shall be provided with such staves, arms, ammunition, uniform and other ac coutrements that may be prescribed by the Super...
13(1) Every person upon ceasing to be an officer shall forthwith deliver up to the Superintendent of 324…
14All
15Every officer may use weapons against any Use of detained person escaping or attempting to escape: weapons. Provided that resort shall not...
16Every officer while acting as such shall have by virtue of his office all the powers, authorities, protection and privileges of a police of...
17(1) No officer nor any Medical Officer nor any Dental Officer shall sell or supply or receive directly 01 indirectly any benefit or advanta...
18(1) No money or other consideration shall on Payment of h b bl idv zi money any pretext w atsoever e paya e, pat, gIVen or forbidden. prom...
19Every Superintendent shall be responsible Maintenance for seeing that all proper records are kept, of all of records. such circumstances, a...
20A
21A Sunerintendent shall ensure that a detain-Detained hL h d 1. 1" persons ed person w 0 a a comp amt or app ications to complaints, make i...
24The Superintendent shall ensure that every article of food supplied for the use of the detained persons is sound and of good quality, and t...
25(1) The Superintendent shall, upon the danger- ᪽ea᪽:If ous illness or death of any detained person, give p᪽᪽᪽:᪽ immediate notice thereof to...
26The
27(1) The Mentri Besar may permit any respon-Visitors to sible person, who has good reasons, to view a place vlf'ewD plac᪽ f detenti bl h. d...
28A Superintendent shall keep or cause to be Booksd antd recor S 0 kept - be kept.
29A Superintendent shall, without delay, sub mit to the Mentri Besar any petition received from a detained person.
30(1) Moneys and other articles whatever in pos session of, or sent in to, any detained person, not expressly allowed by these Orders, shall...
31A Superintendent shall report to the Mentri Reports to B 11. 1 b k f di Mentri Besar. esar a escapes, senous ass au t, out reaxs 0 isease...
32In cases of sudden emergency, the Super-Action in intendent shall take such action as may in the case of. b he narti emergency. Circumstan...
33The Superintendent shall keep strict sur-Contro᪽of '11 h di f h bl' expenditure vel ance over t e expen iture 0 sue pu IC money. as may be...
34(1) The Superintendent shall ensure that every detained person is strictly searched on admission, and that all knives, weapons, instruments...
35(1) Every subordinate officer shall permit him-Searching of self to be searched within a place of detention or officers. within his quarter...
36Subordinate officers shall not be absent
37No officer or any person employed in the place of detention shall make any unauthorised com- 331 Unauthorised communications. Female staff...
38The Senior Wardress shall reside in such quarters as may be assigned to her. She shall not be absent from her quarters without leave from t...
39The Senior Wardress shall search, or cause to be searched, every female detained person on ad mission and so often afterwards as may be di...
40A subordinate officer who shall be guilty of any of the following disciplinary offences, namely:-
41A subordinate officer may appeal to the Mentri Besar against any punishment order under Order 40 and the Mentri Besar may reduce or con fi...
42(1) If it shall appear to a Superintendent that an offcence punishable under Order 40 is of such a grave character as to require a more se...
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45All pay which is forfeited by fines inflicted upon officers under these Orders shall be paid into a fund to be called "The Officers' Reward Fund."
46A detained person who has been removed or transferred from one place of detention to an
47Every detained person shall be supplied with bedding adequate for warmth and health in accordance with the scale approved by the Superin t...
48A Superintendent shall be responsible for the due discharge of all detained persons immediate lyon their becoming entitled to release.
49
50A Medical Officer shall, if necessary, tend the place of detention daily. at - Attendance at place of detention by Medical Officer.
51The Medical Officer shall examine every Examinat!op. detained person sentenced for punishment for any of, and.VlSlts to, detained offence...
52The Medical Officer shall report to the Mentally ᪽n-Superintendent the case of any detained person ᪽᪽':!s᪽etamed whose mind has been or app...
53The Medical Officer shall report in writing Sick detained to the Superintendent the case of any detained per-persons. son to which he think...
54Whenever the Medical Officer either on his own observations or on report by the Superinten dent is of the opinion that the life of any det...
55At least once in every month a Medical
56A Medical Officer shall forthwith, on the death of any detained person, enter in his Case Book the time when the illness, if any, was first...
57(1)
58In the case of a contagious or infectious Occurrence disease occurring in any place of detention it shall d᪽s:!᪽᪽tious be lawful to remove...
59
60In case of a serious illness of a detained
61The Orders applicable to Medical Officers Dental Officers. shall apply, as far as may be, to Dental Officers.
62A Superintendent may punish any de-Punishment for tained person found after due enquiry to be guilty minor o!fences.. by detained of a mi...
63A Superintendent may punish any detain ed person found after due enquiry to be guilty of an aggravated offence as hereinafter specified by...
64The following shall be deemed to be minor offences -
65The following shall be deemed to be aggra-vated offences -
66Every detained person sentenced to dietary punishment shall be sent to the Medical Officer for examination, and a certificate that its infl...
67Whenever a detained person is sentenced Full diet after t 1 1
68Confinement in the punishment cells shall Ma,imum not exceed an aggregate of ninety days in a year ᪽᪽᪽od of for anyone detained person and...
69A detained person sentenced to confine-Vi.sits to de-ment in a punishment cell shall see no one save offi- !amed persons m cells. cers in t...
70So far as may be reasonably practicable,
71
72(1) A detained person shall, consistent with the proper discipline of the place of detention and subject as is hereinafter provided, be ent...
73
74
75i1)
76The Superintendent shall open and inspect the contents of every parcel received by a person detained in a detention camp and may impound an...
77Every person detained in a detention camp shall do such work, not of a severe or irksome na ture, if he so desires, provided that- (a) th...
78Every such detained person doing any work in accordance with these Orders shall be paid in respect of any work, other than work necessary f...
79(1) Every persondetained in a place of deten-Stages. tion shall, on admission thereto, be placed in the First Stage and shall be entitled s...
80Every person detained in a place of deten
81Any detained person, detained in a place of detention, who-
82A Court of a Magistrate shall have jurisdic tion to pass any sentence prescribed by Order 81 of these Orders.
83(1)
84Where the place of detention of a detained person is a prison appointed under section 2 of the Prison Enactment these Orders shall not appl...

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(Order 79) Stage Privileges FIRST To receive one letter and to send one letter to, friends or relatives once in three weeks. In addition, l...

Internal Security (Detained Persons) Order, 1964 · As enacted

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