to health the Medical officer may give such orders as he thinks
necessary in relation to the execution or suspension of such
sentence.

 42. No prisoner shall be punished until he has had an
opportunity of hearing the charge and evidence against him,
and making his defence.


Prisoner may
make his
defence.


Punishment 43. Where any punishment is imposed upon any prisoner,
register. then the Superintendent shall cause to be entered in a register
 to be kept for such purpose a record of the punishment show-
 ing in respect of each prisoner punished, the name o'f the
 prisoner, the nature of his offence, and the extent of his
 punishment.


Power of
Visiting
Justices to
try minor
offences.


 44. A Court composed of two Visiting Justices, appointed
under section 48 (if this Ordinance or of one ex-officio justice,
sitting in prison, may enquire into and punish any minor
prison offence, and in relation thereto, it shall have all the
powers conferred on the Superintendent by section 40 of this
Ordinance.


Appeal by 45. (1) Any prisoner may, within forty-eight hours of
prisoner. the time at which the punishment was ordered, appeal in
 writing to the Visiting Justices' against any sentence imposed
 upon him by the Superintendent and a Court, composed of
 two Visiting Justices appointed under section 48 of this Ordin-
 ance, or one ex-officio Visiting Justice, sitting in prison, may
 allow the appeal, reduce or confirm any such punishment, or
 make such other order as they or he may see fit.
 (2) Where a prisoner cannot write it shall be the duty
 of all members of the prison staff to assist him in lodging hi's
 appeal.
 (3) An appeal under subsection (1) of this section shall
 not be heard by the Visiting Justices, or ex-officio Visiting
 Justice who held the inquiry under section 44 of this Ordinance.


Supervision of
prisoner under
sentence of
death.
Access to
prisoners
under sentence
of death.


 46. Every prisoner under sentence of death shall be
confined apart from other prisoners in a special cell, and
shall be under constant supervision by day and by night.

 47. Except with the written permission of the Superin-
tendent, no person other than Counsel or solicitor for the
prisoner, a member of the prison staff, the Medical Officer, and
a Minister of the religious denomination to which the prisoner
belongs, shall have access to any prisoner under sentence of
death.


Prisons.


1967.


No. 30.