CAP. 90 Prisons [Rev. 2012] 70. Appointment of prison ministers The Minister may, from time to time, appoint by notice in the Gazette ministers or priests of any religious faith to be prison ministers 71. Standing orders for the guidance of prison ministers The Commissioner shall frame standing orders for the guidance of such prison ministers who may receive such remuneration or reimbursement of their expenses as may be prescribed. 72. Appointment and powers of visiting justices (1) The Minister shall, from time to time, appoint by notice in the Gazette fit and proper persons to be visiting justices for each prison. (2) The District Commissioner, the resident magistrate and all administrative officers in any district in which a prison is situate shall be ex officio visiting justices of that prison. (3) A visiting justice may at any time visit a prison in respect of which he is a visiting justice. (4) A visiting justice may inspect the several wards, cells, yards, punishment cells and other apartments and divisions of the prison, inspect and test the quality and quantity of the prisoners’ food, hear the complaint, if any, of any prisoner, and question any prisoner or prison officer, and shall ascertain so far as possible whether this Act, and the rules made thereunder, and the prison standing orders, are adhered to, and shall call the attention of the officer in charge to any irregularity that may be observed in the working of the prison or in the treatment of any prisoner confined therein, and shall exercise and perform such other duties as may be prescribed. (5) The visiting justices to any prison may appoint a chairman and may act as a Board of Visiting Justices and may, at the end of each year or at any other convenient time, render a report to the Minister on the state of the prison to which they are visiting justices. 73. Power of Ministers and judges (1) A Minister or a judge may at any time visit any prison and exercise all or any of the powers of a visiting justice, and may enter any observations he thinks fit to make in reference to the condition of the prison and the prisoners, in a visitors’ book to be kept for that purpose by the officer in charge; the officer in charge shall inform the Commissioner of any observations so entered in the visitors’ book. (2) Deleted by Act No. 10 of 1983, Sch. 74. Power to make rules (1) The Minister may make rules for the better carrying into effect of the provisions and purposes of this Act and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may make rules providing for— (a) the classification of prisons and prisoners into categories, and their separation accordingly; [Issue 1] P30 - 29