Act Number: 9

Act Name: The Prisons Act, 1894

Year: 1894

Enactment Date: 1894-03-22

Long Title: An Act to extend the Indian Easements Act, 1882, to certain areas in which that Act is not in force.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 26: Removal and discharge of prisoners.
    (1) All prisoners, previously to being removed to any other prison, shall be examined by the Medical Officer.
     (2) No prisoner shall be removed from one prison to another unless the Medical Officer certifies that the prisoner is free from any illness rendering him unfit for removal.
     (3) No prisoner shall be discharged against his will from prison, if labouring under any acute or dangerous distemper, nor until, in the opinion of the Medical Officer, such discharge is safe.
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