Section 6: Officers of prisons.

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

For every prison there shall be a Superintendent, a Medical Officer (who may also be the Superintendent), a Medical Subordinate, a Jailer and such other officers as the State Government thinks necessary :

Provided that [the State Government of Bombay] may *** declare by order in writing that in any prison specified in the order the office of Jailer shall be held by the person appointed to be Superintendent.

STATE AMENDMENTS

Maharashtra.--

Amendment of section 6 of Act IX of 1894.--In section 6 of the principal Act shall be renumbered as sub-section (1) of that section.

(2) In sub-section (1) so renumbered--

(a) after the words "a Superintendent" the brackets and words "(who may be a Deputy Inspector-General of Prisons" shall be inserted;

(b) the words "a Medical Subordinate" shall be deleted;

"(2) Where one or more Deputy Superintendents are appointed for a prison, they shall, subject to the general or special orders of the Inspector-General, exercise, carry out or discharge all or any of the powers, duties and functions of a Superintendent under this Act, or any law for the time being in force, as the Superintendent may delegate to them."

[Vide Bombay Act XLV of 1959, s. 3]

Where this provision sits

Act	The Prisons Act, 1894
Section	6
Marginal note	Officers of prisons.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

substituted. Subs. by the A. O. 1937, for "the Governor of Bombay in Council".
omitted. The words "with the previous sanction of the G. G. in C." omitted, ibid.

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