No. 30. Prisons. 1967.


Power of
Assistant
Superintendent
or Senior
Prison Officer
to hold
inquiry.


Application of
sections 9, 10,
(2), 12, 13
and 16.



Offences
against officers
etc.


 13. (1) Where the Superintendent is the complainant
 in an inquiry to be held under subsection (2) of section 10,
 subsection (1) of section 12, or section 16, of this Ordinance
 he shall direct in writing that the inquiry be held by the
 Assistant Superintendent: Provided that, if the power to
 appoint an Assistant Superintendent under subsection (2) of
 section 5 of this Ordinance has not been exercised he shall, in
 like manner, direct that the inquiry be held by the Senior
 Prison Officer.
 (2) Where any inquiry has, in consequence of any direc-
tion under subsection (1) of this section, been held by the
Assistant Superintendent or by the Senior Prison Officer, the
Assistant Superintendent or the Senior Prison Officer (as the
case may be) shall have the power to make any order capable
of being made under this Ordinance by the Superintendent in
like circumstances:
 Provided that such member of the junior prison staff may
appeal against the order of the Assistant Superintendent or
the Senior Prison Officer (as the case may be) in the same
manner and subject to the same conditions as if the appeal
had been against an order made by the Superintendent.

 14. The provisions of section 9, subsection (2) of section
10, section 12, section 13 and section 16 of this Ordinance shall
apply if, and to the extent that they are, adopted by any direc-
tions of the Administrator in the exercise of the power vested,
in him by section 53 of the Saint Vincent (Constitution) Order
in Council, 1959.

 15. Every member of the prison staff who-
 (a) has either directly or indirectly, any pecuniary in-
 terest whatsoever in, or derives any benefit or ad-
 vantage from, the sale or purchase of any prison
 supplies or of any article to or for the use of any
 prisoner or of any prison; or
 (b) has any dealing whereby he obtains or might expect
 to obtain at any time either immediately or in the
 future, any benefit of any nature whatsoever, with any
 prisoner or with any person on behalf of any prisoner;
 or
 (e) without lawful authority-
 (i) knowingly supplies or allows to be supplied to
 any prisoner any prohibited article; or
 (ii) knowingly takes or allows to be taken out of any
 prison any prohibited article; or


No. 30.


1967.


Prisons.