CAP. 90
Prisons
[Rev. 2012]
the court so sentencing or committing that person may order that he shall
perform public work, in accordance with this Part, outside a prison or detention
camp, as the case may be, for the duration of such imprisonment or detention.
(2) Upon making an order under subsection (1) of this section the court shall
order the person in respect of whom the order is made to report forthwith to an
authorized officer of the district in which it is sitting or to any other specified officer
under the control of such authorized officer.
(3) Any officer to whom a person reports in pursuance of an order made under
subsection (1) of this section shall notify such person or cause him to be notified
of the hours, place, nature and any other necessary details of the public work to
be performed by such person.
(4) Any person who, having been ordered to perform public work as aforesaid,
is found by a medical officer to be medically unfit to perform such work shall be
removed to prison or to a detention camp, as the case may require, and shall there
suffer the imprisonment or detention to which he is liable, subject nevertheless to a
deduction of the number of days, if any, on which he has completed his daily task.
(5) Any person who has been ordered to perform public work as aforesaid
may by industry and good conduct earn a remission of one-third of the term of
imprisonment or detention to which he had been sentenced or for which he had
been committed.
(6) If an authorized officer in any district is satisfied that any person in respect of
whom an order under this section has been made, during the term of imprisonment
to which he had been sentenced or for which he had been committed—
(a) has failed without reasonable cause or excuse to present himself for
work at the appointed place and hour; or
(b) absents himself without reasonable cause or excuse from his task; or
(c) fails to accomplish without reasonable cause or excuse a day's task;
or
(d) is otherwise found to be unsatisfactory in his conduct, he may(i) order such person to suffer the imprisonment or detention to which
he is liable; or
(ii) award as punishment loss of remission not exceeding twenty-eight
days; or
(iii) both order that such person shall suffer the imprisonment or detention
to which he is liable and award as punishment loss of remission not
exceeding twenty-eight days.
(7) Where any order is made under paragraph (i) or (iii) of subsection (6) of
this section, the person to whom the order relates shall forthwith be removed to
prison or to a detention camp, as the case may require, and shall there suffer the
imprisonment or detention to which he is liable, subject, nevertheless to a deduction
of the number of days on which he has completed his daily task.
(8) For the purposes of this section—
"authorized officer" means a public officer appointed by the Minister for
the purposes of Part XII of this Ordinance;
"declared area"means any area declared by the Minister, by notice in the
Gazette, to be an area to which this Part of this Ordinance shall apply;
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