Hong Kong Ordinances

PRISONS ORDINANCE

- CHAPTER 234

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title
   2.      Interpretation
   3.      Appointment of Commissioner of Correctional Services and other
           officers
   4.      Setting apart of places as prisons
   5.      (Repealed)
   6.      Certification of cells by Commissioner
   7.      Commitment and removal of prisoners
   8.      Separation of male and female prisoners
   9.      Control of prisoners
   10.     Custody and conveyance of prisoners
   11.     Removal of prisoners for medical treatment
   12.     Attendance of prisoners
   12A.    Leave of absence of persons detained
   13.     (Repealed)
   14.     (Repealed)
   15.     (Repealed)
   16.     Prohibition of certain persons acting as jurors in an inquiry into
           death of prisoner
   17.     Escaping or aiding to escape from prison or legal custody
   17A.    Failure by prisoner to return after leave of absence an offence
   18.     Introduction of unauthorized articles into prison
   18A.    Possession or introduction of prohibited articles by prison officers
   19.     Supplying unauthorized articles to prisoners
   20.     Duty to display outside a prison notice containing punishments under
           sections 17, 18 and 19
   20A.    Offences against discipline generally
   20B.    Offences against discipline by Superintendents and higher ranks
   20C.    Offences against discipline by Chief Officers, subordinate officers
           and other persons employed in the prisons
   20D.    Interdiction where criminal proceedings are instituted against an
           officer
   20E.    Punishment of officers and other persons employed in the prisons
           guilty of a criminal offence
   20F.    Saving in respect of the Public Service (Administration) Order and
           government regulations
   21.     Penalties for misconduct
   21A.    Prisoners' Welfare Fund
   22.     (Repealed 58 of 1999 s. 4)
   22A.    Special services and fees
   23.     Visiting justices and visiting committees
   24.     Powers of delegation
   24A.    Chief Executive to determine dietary scales
   24B.    Hostels
   24C.    Definitions: Part III
   24D.    Commissioner to be corporation sole for purposes of this Part
   24E.    Continuance of Correctional Services Department Welfare Fund
   24F.    What the Fund consists of
   24G.    Functions of corporation
   24H.    What the Fund may be used for
   24I.    Corporation may make donations
   24J.    Corporation may employ staff
   24K.    Corporation may engage agents
   24L.    Corporation may delegate its functions
   24M.    Corporation may enter into contracts and other transactions
   25.     Power to make rules
   26.     (Repealed 58 of 1999 s. 4)


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