Prisons.


 date on which he would be so entitled to be released he shall
 no longer be deemed to be in legal custody and no steps shall
 be taken to prevent his escape merely by reason of the fact
 that he had been a prisoner cr person detained:
 And also provided that, where in any case from the gravity
 'of the offence for which any prisoner or person detained in a
 lock-up may be in custody or for any other reason the Super-
 intendent or person in charge of the lock-up (as the case may
 be) considers it de- irable to take special measures for the
 security of such prisoner or person detained while under treat-
 ment in hospital, ii shall be lawful for the S :perintendent or
 the person in charge (as the ease may bhe to give such prisoner
 or person detained into the charge of fit and proper persons,
 not being less than two in number, one of whom shall always
 be with such prisoner or person detained by day and by night,
 and such persons shall be vested with f:ll power and authority
 to do all things necessary to prevent such prisoner or person
 detained from escaping and shall be answerable for the safe
 custody of such prisoner or person detained until such time
 as such prisoner is handed over to the Superintendent on his
 discharge from hospital, or until such time as his sentence
 expires, whichever may first occur or in the ease of a person
 detained, until such time as he is discharged from hospital
 and returned to the lock-up whence lie was removed' there to
 be dealt with according to law:
 And further provided that nothing shall be done under
 the authority of this section which in the op)nion of the person
 in charge of such hospital is likely to be prejudicial to health
 of the prisoner.
Transfer of 32. The Administrator, acting in lis discretion, may
prisoners. order the removal of all or any prisoners confined in any
 prison to another prison within the Island, and it shall not be
 necessary for the purposes of such order to designate any
 prisoner by name, but it shall be sufficient to describe such
 prisoner or prisoners by reference to general description.
Separation of 33. Separate provision shall be made for the detention
prisoners. of-
 (a) male and female prisoners, and no male prisoner shall
 be detained in the same part of the prisofi as any
 female prisoner;
 (b) civil and criminal prisoners. and no civil prisoner
 shall be detained in the s';ime part of any prison as
 any criminal prisoner:


No. 30.


1967.