Section 6
Officers of prisons.
About this Act
An Act to extend the Indian Easements Act, 1882, to certain areas in which that Act is not in force.
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 1[the State Government of Bombay] may 2*** 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;
(c) after the said sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:--
"(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]
Provided that 1[the State Government of Bombay] may 2*** 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;
(c) after the said sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:--
"(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]
Notes
1 Subs. by the A. O. 1937, for "the Governor of Bombay in Council".
2. The words "with the previous sanction of the G. G. in C." omitted, ibid.
2. The words "with the previous sanction of the G. G. in C." omitted, ibid.