Prisons Act · s 57

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s 57Payment of money forbidden

(1)

No money or other consideration shall on any pretext whatsoever be payable, paid, given or promised by or on behalf of any prisoner, either on his entrance into, commitment to, continuance in, or discharge from any prison, to any prison officer; and any prison officer receiving or demanding any such money or other consideration of the promising of such money or other consideration or undertaking any service in consideration or receiving or the promising of such money or other consideration is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $500 and imprisonment for 6 months.

(2)

Any prison officer convicted under this section may be dismissed from his office, and all arrears of pay due to him may be forfeited.