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member of the visiting committee may at any time
enter the prison and shall have free nccess to every
part of it and to every prisoner.

Prison OFFIcERs.

7. (1) The Governor shall appoint an officer Prison
with such title as he may approve who shall be in *"*
charge of the prison in the Presidency and shall
superintend and manage the same.

(2) In addition to the officer appointed under
subsection (1) of this section the Governor shall
appoint such other officers including an honorary
chaplain, as may be necessary, for the efficient
management of the prison.

(3) The duties of the officers appointed by
virtue of subsections (1) and (2) of this section
shall be such as may be prescribed by Rules made
under section 27 of this Ordinance.

8. Every male prison oificer while acting as Powers of
such shall have all the powers, authority, protection vce
and privileges of a constable.

CONFINEMENT AND TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.

9. (1) A prisoner, whether sentenced to Place of con-
Imprisonment or committed to prison on remand or ae
pending trial or otherwise, may be lawfully confined
In any prison.

(2) Prisoners shall be committed to such pris-
ons as the Governor may from time to time direct;
and may by direction of the Governor be removed
during the term of their imprisonment from the
prison in which they are confined to any other
prison in the Presidency.

(3) A writ, warrant or other legal instrument
addressed to the officer in charge of a prison and |
identifying that prison by its situation or by any
other sufficient description shall not be invalidated
by reason only that the prison is usually known by
a different description.

10. (1) Every prisoner shall be deemed to Legal custody
be in the legal custody of the officer in charge of the °f P™isoner-
prison.