PJM 2Chapter I · Introductory

Section 2 · [ Definitions prescribed in the Prisons Act, 1894. [Section 3, Act IX, 1894.]

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- In the Prisons Act] :-

(1)

"prison" means any jail or place used permanently or temporarily under the general or special orders of a Local Government for the detention of prisoners, and includes all lands and buildings appurtenant thereto, but does not include -

(a)

any place for the confinement of prisoners who are exclusively in the custody of the police;

(b)

[ any place specially appointed by the Local Government, under Section 541 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898;] [Section Act V 1898.] or

(c)

any place which has been declared by the Local Government by general or special order, to be a subsidiary Jail;

(2)

"criminal prisoner" means any prisoner duly committed to custody under the writ, warrant or order of any Court or authority exercising criminal jurisdiction, or by order of a court-martial;

(3)

"convicted criminal prisoner" means any criminal prisoner under sentence of a Court or Court Martial, and includes a person detained in prison under the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, or under the Prisoners' Act, 1900;

(4)

"civil prisoner" means any prisoner who is not a criminal prisoner;

(5)

"remission system" means the rules for the time being in force regulating the award of remission to, and the consequent shortening of sentences of prisoners in jail;

(6)

"history ticket" means the ticket exhibiting such information as is required in respect of each prisoner by this Act or the rules thereunder;

(7)

Cancelled.

(8)

"Medical Subordinate" means an Assistant Surgeon, Apothecary or qualified Sub-Assistant Surgeon; and

(9)

[ "Prohibited article" means an article the introduction or removal of which into or out of a prison is prohibited by any rule under the Prisons Act.] [See paras 606 and 607.]

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