Section 45, Prisons Act, 1894: Prison-offences.

Section 45: Prison-offences.

The Prisons Act, 1894Central Act · Act 9 of 1894

The following acts are declared to be prison-offences when committed by a prisoner :—

(1) such wilful disobedience to any regulation of the prison as shall have been declared by rules made under section 59 to be a prison-offence ;

(2) any assault or use of criminal force ;

(3) the use of insulting or threatening language ;

(4) immoral or indecent or disorderly behaviour ;

(5) wilfully disabling himself from labour ;

(6) contumaciously refusing to work ;

(7) filling, cutting, altering or removing handcuffs, fetters or bars without due authority ;

(8) wilful idleness or negligence at work by any prisoner sentenced to rigorous imprisonment ;

(9) wilful mismanagement of work by any prisoner sentenced to rigorous imprisonment ;

(10) wilful damage to prison-property ;

(11) tampering with or defacing history-tickets, records or documents ;

(12) receiving, possessing or transferring any prohibited article ;

(13) feigning illness ;

(14) wilfully bringing a false accusation against any officer or prisoner ;

(15) omitting or refusing to report, as soon as it comes to his knowledge, the occurrence of any fire, any plot or conspiracy, any escape, attempt or preparation to escape, and any attack or preparation for attack upon any prisoner or prison-official ; and

(16) conspiring to escape, or to assist in escaping, or to commit any other of the offences aforesaid.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Prisons Act, 1894
Section	45
Marginal note	Prison-offences.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	1

Act

The Prisons Act, 1894

Section

Marginal note

Prison-offences.

Jurisdiction

Central

Status

In force as published by the source

Judgments citing it

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