(1) No subordinate officer or employee entrusted with keys shall take them out of the jail, leave them lying about or deliver them to any other person, except when, on leaving the jail or going off duty, he delivers them to such officer as may be authorized to receive them, and he shall not leave his post or the jail without making them over as above directed.
(2) The keys of wards, cells, outer gates or godowns shall not, on any pretext, whatever, be made over to any prisoner.
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(3) If a key is lost, the lock or locks to which it belongs must be put out of use, as they will be no longer secure, and the officer responsible shall be liable to replace them at his own expense.