LEEWARD ISLANDS.

GENERAL GOVERNMENT
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS,

1954, No. 17.
PRISONS

 

Tur Prison (AMeNpwent) Runes and REGULATIONS, 1954,
patep May 81, 1954, mapE BY THE GOVERNOR IN
CoUNCIL UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 6 OF THE
Prisons Act (Car. 88),

1. Citation. These Rules may be cited as the Prison

(Amendment) Rules and Regulations, 1954.

The Rules and Regulations for the Government of the
Prisons made by the Governor in Council on the 18th day
of August, 1909, and any amendments thereto, are herein-
after called the Principal Regulations.

2, Amendment of Principal Regulations.
The Principal Regulations are hereby amended as follows:—

a) by. renumbering regulation 212 as subregula- ‘
tion (1) of the regulation;
(6) by the deletion of paragraphs (xxviii) and
(xxix) and the substitution therefor of the following—

“‘(xxviii) Disobedience of, or negligence with res-
pect to, these Rules and Regulations or any
lawful order given by any person in authority
connected with the Prison;

(xxix) Conduct to the prejudice of good order or

prison discipline, :

the Officer in charge of Prison discipline or the Keeper
may, unless such Officer or Keeper considers the offence
to be of a serious nature, impose a fine not exceeding
five dollars for each such offence. [f such Officer cr
Keeper considers the offence to be of a serious nature
he shall report the matter to the Chairman of the
Visiting Justices, who may summon a meeting of the
Visiting Justices and cause an inquiry upon oath to be
made before them and if after such inquiry the Visiting
Justices are satisfied that the offence with which the
officer has been charged he proved to their satisfaction —
they may award any of the following punishments—